• I wander’d 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 stretch’d in never-ending line
    Along the margin of a bay;
    Ten...

  • Fathered by March, the daffodils are here.
    First, all the air grew keen with yesterday,
    And once a thrush from out some hollow gray
    On a field’s edge, where whitening stalks made cheer,
    Fluted the last unto the budding year;
    Now that the wind lets loose from orchard spray
    Plum bloom and peach bloom down the dripping way,
    Their punctual...

  •   FAIRE daffadills, we weep to see
      You haste away so soone;
    As yet the early-rising sun
      Has not attained his noone.
            Stay, stay,
      Until the hastening day
            Has run
      But to the even-song;
    And having prayed together, we
      Will goe with you along.

    We have short time to stay as you,
      We...

  • 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...