William Wordsworth – DAFFODILS

December 30, 2008 · Filed under BOOKS, thoughts · Tagged Daffodils, John keats, poems on solitude, William Wordsworth

I read this when i was in 9th standard , it was this beautiful poem that made me love and enjoy the “solitude” he speaks of  , in the setting of nature

“Daffodils” (1804)

I wandere’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 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 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

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.

By William Wordsworth (1770-1850).

Here are some of the poems on solitude –

by John Keats – “To solitude”

by Lord Byron – “Solitude”

by Alexander Pope – “Ode on solitude”

Rabindranath Tagore’s  “Gitanjali” , has many poems reffering to it – i will write a post on it later on …