I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

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Source: Project Gutenberg #8824: Poems in Two Volumes, Volume 2 (1807) Source URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8824 Public domain basis: Published 1807; public domain. Coverage: Complete: the three-stanza 1807 first-edition text. The familiar four-stanza version (adding "Continuous as the stars that shine") dates from 1815 and is not this text. Editor's line number removed.

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

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 dancing Daffodills; Along the Lake, beneath the trees, Ten thousand dancing in the breeze.

The waves beside them danced, but they Outdid the sparkling waves in glee:-- A Poet could not but be gay In such a laughing company: I gaz'd--and gaz'd--but little thought What wealth the shew 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.