सोमवार, 20 जुलाई 2020

I wandered lonely as a Cloud.../ William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

https://youtu.be/d5-KMRUxyug
This video tells the story of how William Wordsworth's poem
'I wandered lonely as a Cloud' was composed. The most famous poem in the English language was written in 1804,
two years after William Wordsworth saw the daffodils while walking by
the shores of Ullswater on a stormy day with Dorothy, his sister.
Wordsworth's inspiration for the poem came from an account written
by Dorothy in her journal.

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 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.

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