Saturday, 20 September 2025

Wiliam Wordsworth

 


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.


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I remember learning this poem by the English poet William Wordsworth in our English class when I was at high school but can't get beyond the first verse these days. So that's what we have above. I thought of it as soon as we saw the daffodils along the side of the motorway. We had to take a short  detour from our normal route to get the pictures but that was no problem. 

Does anyone else have these things spring to mind when you see or hear something like this?

Blessings,
Diana

13 comments:

  1. I love that! Such a beautiful scene, and the poem is perfect for it! The only poem I think of often is "Trees", by Sgt. Joyce Kilmer. We actually learned to sing it as a song in elementary school. I often sing it when I see a particularly beautiful tree. Learning rhymes with a tune makes it much easier to remember it! Same with some Scriptures in the Bible. I can sing them before I can just quote them. Something interesting about that! Thank you for this delightful poem and picture of your beautiful countryside today!! You are seeing spring daffodils while we are beginning to see autumn all around us! So interesing!

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  2. Beautiful scenes and the poem is just perfect. When I'm walking, I often think of the phrase from the poem that goes "Two roads diverged in a wood and I... I took the one less traveled".

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  3. It is beautiful. I have those bursts of poetry, songs too. Sometimes I recall only the cadence or one line. Takes me back in time.

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  4. We had to study this in English Literature classes. I preferred Chaucer instead.

    God bless always.

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  5. Pretty scene and the poem is perfect. I love see the Daffodils in the spring.

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  6. Yes, it happens often, but usually with a song! Love your photos and your memorized poem!!

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  7. The daffodils are always a sign that spring is coming.
    And that makes me happy

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  8. They are my favourite flower. They seem to be flowering everywhere in Greymouth right now.

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  9. At least I knew William Wordsworth was a poet

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  10. You are seeing daffodils, and we are looking at colored leaves on the Maples and Oaks. Your pictures are beautiful, and I really like the header!

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  11. Daffodils, such a beautiful flower.
    I do like that poem by William Wordsworth.

    All the best Jan

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  12. Lovely pictures. We are having the last flowers of summer here and falling leaves but I love daffodils so much.

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