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The Worlds of Gilbert and Sullivan

This is probably William Wordsworth's best known poem. Although perhaps not his greatest, it is arguably his most loved. It is influenced by the journals of William's younger sister Dorothy. She was also a woman of letters and a poet, and they lived together for the greater part of their lives.

Daffodils

I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o'er vale 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
Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:
A poet could not but be 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.

Could you remember all the verses? Perhaps, like many of us, you remembered those first four famous lines! We particularly like the image of the comparison with the sparkling waves! Hope you enjoyed re-capping the rest with us at MusicSmiles, and still have that 'bliss of solitude' as William's (and Dorothy's) daffodils flash upon your 'inward eye'!.

Now, how about a trip to the London of 1802 . . .?

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