DAFFODILS

Daffodils are very beautiful and literary flowers. They are strongly associated with Wales and St. David's Day, a Welsh holiday celebrated on March 1st is surrounded with daffodil imaginery.

Among so many writers that mention them use daffodils as inspiration for their work we have William Wordsworth.

Glencoyne Bay at the southern end of Ullswater in the LakeDistrict is where William Wordsworth was inspired to write his famous poem Daffodils.

Daffodils

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 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

WORDSWORTH COTTAGE