William wordsworth daffodils

Poem ©: "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" / "The Daffodils" - by William Wordsworth (1770-1850).

A great lover of nature, William Wordsworth, had once wandered aimlessly just like a cloud floats in the sky. He had suddenly come across countless golden daffodils by the side of a lake. Those golden daffodils were fluttering and dancing in the air, appearing like stars twinkling in the sky. They made it as if they were dancing in a frenzy.

Wordsworth

In the spring of 1802 Wordsworth was inspired to write "Daffodils" after a walk along the shore of Ullswater in England’s Lake District with his sister Dorothy. He almost certainly used the account of this walk as recorded in Dorothy's journal to help prompt his own later recollections. In hindsight, he is said to have claimed that the two lines he considered the best, They flash upon that inward eye Which is the bliss of solitude; were in fact composed by Dorothy. "Daffodils" has three…

March's birth flower is the Daffodil. Artwork copyright Kimberly Shaw "Daffodils" By William Wordsworth (1804) 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...

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