I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth
I finished The Eyre Affair last night (I started it Sunday afternoon) and it was fantastic!!! I can’t recommend it highly enough. I have three words: Edward Fairfax Rochester. *swoon* As soon as Heather is done with Lost in a Good Book (finish it SOON! *whine whine*) I’m going to start that. Anyway, this poem was referenced in The Eyre Affair so I thought I’d post it…
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
By William Wordsworth
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 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.
