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DLTK's Poems
Daffodils
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high
o'er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of
golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering
and dancing in the breeze.
Continuous as the stars that shine
And twinkle on the milky way,
They stretched in never-ending line
Along the margin of a bay:
Ten thousand saw I at a glance,
Tossing
their heads in sprightly dance.
The waves beside them danced, but
they
Outdid the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not be but
gay,
In such a jocund company:
I gazed - and gazed - but
little thought
What wealth the show to me had brought:
For
oft, when on my couch I lie
In vacant or in pensive mood,
They
flash upon that inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And
then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.
