I wandered lonely as a cloudThat 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 shineAnd twinkle on the milky way,They stretched in never-ending lineAlong the margin of a bay: Ten thousand saw I at a glance,Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.The waves beside them danced; but theyOut-did the sparkling waves in glee:A poet could not but be gay,In such a jocund company:I gazed—and gazed—but little thoughtWhat wealth the show to me had brought:For oft, when on my couch I lieIn vacant or in pensive mood, They flash upon that inward EYEWHICH is the bliss of solitude;And then my heart with PLEASURE fills,And dances with the daffodils.– William Wordsworth (1815)The poem was inspired by an event on 15 April 1802 in which Wordsworth and his sister Dorothy came across a "long belt" of daffodils.[4] Written some time between 1804 and 1807 (in 1804 by Wordsworth's own account),[5] it was first published in 1807 in Poems, in Two Volumes, and a revised version was published in 1815.[6]In a poll conducted in 1995 by the BBC Radio 4 Bookworm programme to determine the nation's favourite poems, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud came fifth.[7] Often anthologised, the poem is commonly seen as a classic of English ROMANTIC poetry, although Poems, in Two Volumes, in which it first appeared, was poorly reviewed by Wordsworth's contemporaries.