A virtual movie of William Wordsworth 1770 - 1850 reciting his much loved poem “daffodils”

William Wordsworth was born at Cockermouth on the River Derwent, in the heart of the Lake District Cumbria north of England an area thats natural beauty inspired much of his work….This qiute possibly his most quoted poem needs little explanation to anybody who has experienced the seasonal joyfulness of the early English spring and the wondrous promise of warmer times to come seemingly symbolised by the blooming of the magnificent Daffodils..

The 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 the inward eye
Which is the bliss of solitude;
And then my heart with pleasure fills,
And dances with the daffodils.

All rights are reserved on this video sound recording/copyright Jim Clark 2008

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