I WANDERED LONELY AS A CLOUD
William Wordsworth William Wordsworth (1770–1850) was a famous English poet and leader of the Romantic Movement. He loved writing about nature and human feelings. His famous works include Lyrical Ballads, The Prelude, Ode: Intimations of Immortality, and Tintern Abbey. In 1843, he became Britain’s Poet Laureate. Wordsworth’s poetry inspires readers to appreciate nature's beauty and simple joys of life. 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 wea...