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 dancing Daffodills;
- Source
- I wandered lonely as a Cloud (Daffodils), Poems in Two Volumes, 1807
- Written
- 1807
About this quotation
Wordsworth based the poem on a walk with his sister Dorothy by Ullswater in April 1802, which she described in her journal. This is the 1807 wording; he revised the poem in 1815 and added a stanza, so later editions differ.