"golden daffodils."
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 daffodils1,beside the fake, beneath the trees,1 daffodil: a yellow flower of the lily family.
fluttering and dancing in the breeze.
continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the milky way1,they stretch"d 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 but be gayin such a jocund2 company!
i gazed-and gazed-but little thought what wealth the show to me had brought;for oft, when on my couch i liein vacant3 or in pensive4 mood,they flash upon that inward eye5which is the bliss of solitude;
and then my heart with pleasure fills,
and dances with the daffodils.
-wordsworth
1milky way: a broad luminous belt in the sky, caused by the light of countlessfixed stars.
2jocund: gay; happy; mirthful. 3 vacant: idle; unoccupied.
4pensive: thoughtful.
5inward eye: the mind"s eye-the thoughts that call up the picture.