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Non omnis moriar

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

by William Wordsworth · Explore poems

  1. I wandered lonely as a Cloud
  2. That floats on high o'er Vales and Hills,
  3. When all at once I saw a crowd
  4. A host of dancing Daffodills;
  5. Along the Lake, beneath the trees,
  6. Ten thousand dancing in the breeze.
  7.  
  8. The waves beside them danced, but they
  9. Outdid the sparkling waves in glee:—
  10. A Poet could not but be gay
  11. In such a laughing company:
  12. I gaz'd—and gaz'd—but little thought
  13. What wealth the shew to me had brought:
  14.  
  15. For oft when on my couch I lie
  16. In vacant or in pensive mood,
  17. They flash upon that inward eye
  18. Which is the bliss of solitude,
  19. And then my heart with pleasure fills,
  20. And dances with the Daffodils.

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