#Wordsworth daffodils archive#

This wind blew directly over the lake to them. That floats on high oer 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.

#Wordsworth daffodils archive#

I never saw daffodils so beautiful they grew among the mossy stones about & about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness & the rest tossed & reeled & danced & seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the Lake, they looked so gay ever glancing ever changing. I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud ('Daffodils') Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 100-year archive of POETRY magazine. The lyrical poem ‘Daffodils’ is a well-known work of the leading 19th-century Romantic poet William Wordsworth (1770 1850).

“We set off after dinner from Eusemere…the wind was furious & we thought we must have returned…the wind seized our breath the Lake was rough… When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow park we saw a few daffodils close to the water side,…& at last under the boughs of the trees, we saw that there was a long belt of along the shore, about the breadth of a country turnpike road. Daffodils by William Wordsworth Literature and other musings Daffodils by William Wordsworth Februchingwy About the poet William Wordsworth was one of the founders of English Romanticism and one of its most central figures and important intellects. The pages in Dorothy Wordsworth’s Grasmere Journal where she writes about having seen the daffodils at Ullswater.ĭorothy’s account of this walk taken on the shores of Ullswater on the 15th April 1802 with her brother may relate to a conversation they had as they battled against the wind: I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high oer vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils Beside the lake, benea.