Daffodils - William Wordsworth (An Inspirational Poem)

[@bobbybaucom9440]

From time to time, my late English wife, while propped up on her pillows in bed, would read me this poem while I was getting ready for work. Brings back such wonderful memories of our 47 years together. Her ashes are in Iver Heath, Bucks., England, where I'll be some day.

[@prachikhirbat1749]

U love ur wife so much. What an eternal feeling

[@alisheriff9289]

We may be strangers but your comment brought a lump to my throat. Bless you brother.

[@pablo9364]

Very nice

[@Silveryback]

That's beautiful. God bless you both.

[@damarisakimbi9012]

Very loving and calm ! Thanks!

[@vincentmokoena4004]

I miss my high school friends, it's been 8 years since I first read this poem, and I can still, not only, remember it but can remember the mood in our classroom, the warmth of that day, and how it made me feel. I remember and miss my English teacher♡

[@solarnaut]

" . . . What wealth the show to me had brought . . . " . . . They flash upon that inward eye . . . " B-)

[@prisillae.m2933]

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[@bobbybaucom9440]

Did you read it in front of the class and did all your classmates have to read it as well? Sounds like the poem touched your heart.

[@rajtheo]

Yes, took me back to my English Class and to the English teacher who passed away few years ago.

[@mikeenabe5076]

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[@annmcgranaghan2131]

Learned this poem when I was a wee lass. I'm now 84 yrs and can still recite most of it. Daffodils are such a wonderful welcome to Spring. Such a "happy" flower.

[@janbigarnayak6741]

You a old man now

[@annmcgranaghan2131]

@@janbigarnayak6741 An old lady , yes!

[@janbigarnayak6741]

Oh

[@salinip8869]

It is real ly nice to hear that u still recite it almost.. be thankful to god for having a bright memory..☺👍

[@pakistanieagles5246]

Oh..it is now the part of our English lesson.

[@adityaniyogi9123]

As a tiny tot we had to memorize this poem, almost in my 50s now remembered it word to word.

[@garywait3231]

Yes, too bad it was so gloomily read : more like a dirge than a celebration !

[@kamatchiramanathan6545]

The poem has brings to come my nostalgia. This poem was studied in my sixth standard. So I lovely somuch.

[@sujatapande5004]

Same here... In my school days.. Central idea... Poetry recetation... Analogy.. Question and answers....

[@nehashetty2803]

I am 31 now I remember it too 🥰

[@nehashetty2803]

I had recited it for a competition too 😍

[@miniirianiamir6756]

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.

[@bhumikajoshi6188]

Ok 🆗 good 😌

[@AkhilaCS-rj2hi]

Thankyou💝

[@ganiyazaib4468]

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[@aswinshboneninezerotwotwo8]

I recited this poem for a competition when I was in school and won the first place. And when I was appreciated, I replied that it wasn’t me, it was Wordsworth.

[@geethuvarghese9103]

That was Class.. 😂

[@myriadmyriad5303]

Hey what a coincidence me too in srilanka 🙏

[@shwetak1052]

Me too in india😀

[@okbye9542]

Me too

[@tim2k419]

that is so gay

[@emerald.m1061]

My mom taught me this poem for school fest. I got A+. Remembering my mom who went back to God's abode...may be she met her favourite poet there. Love from India 🙏🏼

[@vishnupriyayuvaraj9007]

My mum too im India to

[@C.S_dra]

Is ur mom rupali barge

[@emerald.m1061]

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[@KmlJeet-bl4sm]

This poem is in my english book

[@marnellkent3682]

This was one of my grandmother, Nelly's, favorite poems. We had an old 78 record player that she had used to record herself reciting this poem. She was born in 1878. It was about 1963 when I listened to the scratchy 78 record. Such a wonderful memory. Such a beautiful poem. Thank you!

[@meditationrelaxingpeaceful5632]

Beautiful ❤️❤️

[@soudabiakoya9858]

😊

[@41paoli]

Enjoyed this poem as a child. It was what inspired me to plant drifts of daffodils on our property in my 60's . A lasting pleasure, treasured every spring to harken me back to this very poem closing in on 80.

[@lindadobson9854]

Steven Atkins.....I still use some old fashioned words long forgotten......Hark is one of them, frock another . Probably picked up from my English grandparents and I'm 76 yes myself. I know this poem well, it is set to music and I sang it at school.

[@arati.behera]

Hark means listen

[@41paoli]

@@arati.behera Thanks for the reply. But in the the United States, harkens more often refers to " pay attention to" or evoke a memory or some sort of a "longing."

[@mauricioalfonso8521]

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[@makaitate6463]

@Mauricio Alfonso Instablaster =)

[@MegaFount]

These things become more precious as we age. It took me awhile to appreciate the keen, incisive art of the poet. Now I appreciate it more than ever. Appreciate the manifold beauty of this world.

[@ramamohanaraokoduru3545]

I studied this poem in sixth class during 1963 . I got by heart this poem. Still I remembered that style, presentation of explanation of our English Sir. Thanks for sweet memories

[@spark3858]

I saw a steep hill next to the road with hundreds of daffodils growing on it while driving on a country road years ago. I was in awe over the beauty of them all. I came across this poem sometime later and it always takes me back in my mind's eye to that beautiful hill. Wordsworth had an awesome talent of touching the soul with his discriptive wordings.

[@gorjanapetrovic5383]

You said my toughts.

[@jeevanmenon9425]

great, you're lucky

[@avinashkhanwalkar2796]

This poem took me back to my school days. 58 years since I left the school. Beautiful poem.

[@bragadeeshkumaran194]

Holy...!

[@fishersofmen315]

True story: I recited this by heart in English class

[@vincentmokoena4004]

Haha ❤ I was about to say the same thing for me. How I miss those days in High School

[@ashleyhaneul21]

Wooh same here.. i remembered i was so nervous to recite it in front of the class as i have never done anything like that until that day

[@ayushpriyam8455]

I too by hearted it Those were the daz

[@letgoofwill]

In Tamil Nadu, India, we did too!

[@Jxnhn]

same here i will recited this in october 9 ;-;

[@drsesharajanramasamy7960]

I am in 70s. My teacher with profound love towards this poem and taught us for more than two weeks . When i visited my village field during summer i used to see the golden flowers of the plant for miles together. I recited the poem to the plants in louder voice. They answered waving in the breeze. This is a real experience.

[@helenrogers1400]

Yes, a beautiful memory; it took me back 70 years. Thank you. ☘️🇮🇪🇺🇸

[@imAsh21]

I love the feelings that I get late at night, looking for the right poem to read. This is one that truly captivated the love for life in its purest form.

[@candyfloss184]

Suddenly I went back to my class 6 in 1997 and again in my class 9 in 2000 when I could recite this poem. Strangely I realise that I have forgot some of the words. Thank you KZbin for momentarily taking me to my happier childhood days.

[@dineshsubba6216]

"I gazed and gazed but little thought,what wealth the show to me had brought"....fantastic lines that connects the readers to the poet..sad did not understand it in my school days..but still wonderful memories.

[@pinakichowdhury3043]

I was very happy after hearing this!! This us one of my fav poem...each time i read this i can see the daffodils waving and dancing with the breeze it really make me happy and all my sadness disappears

[@paulabowen840]

He is one of my favourite poets I visited hos house in the lake district snd have the poem now hanging in my drawing room Daffodils bloom every year in my garden in his memory.Wonderful poem!

[@brigdrsurendermohansharma3031]

A great poet he was Daffodils this poem I learnt in my schools and again many times till graduation. In College our English teacher would take a whole period to explain the depth of words. Our teacher would go deep into the charms of the poems and I used to be spell bound and the whole poem and commentary by teacher was just magical.

[@wellwisher3912]

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[@ghoststarstalk]

By this author fave 4 lines : 'Let us then be up and doing With a heart for any fate Still achieving, still pursuing Learn to labor and to wait.'

[@khirabdibose9827]

It's not of William Wordsworth, this is the poem A Psalm Of life by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

[@debjanineogy2222]

This poem takes me back to my school days when we had to memorise this poem . My English teacher explained the background and the poem so well that I yearned to see the Lake District in Scotland ,where this poem was written. A beautiful poem and I still enjoy going through the poem whenever I can. What a beautiful poem written by the great poet,William Wordsworth.

[@LAALPETE]

The Lake District is in Cumbria, which is in England.

[@margarethughes3763]

61 years ago at school I had to learn this poem I was 11.still remember it. Love daffodils.

[@marija4471]

I hope ur doing good now:)

[@parul209]

Such a heart warming poem

[@meditationrelaxingpeaceful5632]

Right❤️❤️

[@davidtuer5825]

The style in which the reader has recited this poem is more appropriate to a funeral than a beautiful Spring morning full of life and joy.

[@solomonmartin4719]

This poem taking me back sixty years back to my class room where I was with my friends, listening with music played by Master whom I remember now. Golden Treasure.

[@pujammbora2595]

This is what KZbin should be for. ❤

[@g.gladysparimala8550]

My favourite poet.. A spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings and emotions recollected in tranquility..

[@iamminhaj]

"And Then My Heart With Pleasure Fills, And Dances With The DAFFODILS" Loved it scene my childhood ❣️❣️

[@priyanaidu1294]

I learnt it as a student my mom made me by heart this poem, now I am a English teacher and I'm teaching my students this poem.

[@tiyashajana7758]

It brings back my school days memories... This poem always amazed me a lot.....what a profound calm it gives to me always... It's been 8 or 9 years maybe since I first read it.... Those school days was pleasant, unexplainable ... I miss those days. . 😭😭😭💕💕💕💗Beside the lake beneath The Trees. Fluttering And Dancing In The Breeze.

[@pakistanieagles5246]

😍😍😍

[@deepalib3096]

I loved this poem in school.... From this poem I realized how beautiful the English countryside is

[@davidmccarter9479]

I bet that this is the most recited poem in its entirety in our schools.

[@ishitadasgupta2357]

A heartwarming and mood - uplifting poem. Just what we need to hear again and again in these troubled times.

[@arnebovarne7759]

Nice picture of the poet. He seems to be in a kind of transcended state of a higher reality. The lyrics are nice and the music that accompanies the reading is eminent. Together, it fascinates me every time.

[@chinnuprince9997]

One of my favourite poem, since childhood❤️ Beside the lake , beneath the trees,fluttering and dancing in the breeze - - And then my heart with pleasure fills and dances with the daffodils❤️

[@rajapalamittam7530]

A spontaneous overflow of powerful emotions recollected in tranquillity...so said William Wordsworth.

[@prabhakarjanakiraman9548]

So true n beautiful.aA thought provoking message.

[@geethalakshmi5050]

One of my favourite poems! Used to imagine the vales, hills and the spread of daffodils. Brought so much pleasure! Enjoyed teaching it as well. Wanted to go on reading the poem to the children again and again! Even now nearing the end of my life, this poem of Wordsworth brings do much happiness.

[@mikibawa4232]

When ever I see a host of golden daffodils In spring, this wonderful poem flashes through my mind ❤️

[@khrishnakumarigossai6559]

I learnt this poem when I was in Standard 1 (Grade 1)in South America (British Guyana)and I do remember, we would hold our skirts and twirl and dance to the rhythm of the wind in the daffodils. Beautiful memories. Thank you.

[@marypeaceprincess3819]

Wow!

[@swatichauhan7912]

First grade

[@CarolinaFrasineanu-rp3xw]

It's a marvellous poem written by a worldwide known most romantic poet in one of the loveliest languages❤❤❤

[@iliyasmak5838]

This poem has greatly moulded my personality and my view towards nature and to weave the beauty to form an art work of immense pleasure ❤️

[@googleit1370]

Everytime i read this poem, I feel like I find a new meaning to it, or new memories that I can relate it with, but now I understand it's just me and all my ages speaking differently.

[@grid9124]

I memorized this poem when I was 9 yrs old in school. Thank you for bringing back memorable days 🙏🏽

[@maeeeeee7628]

I memories this when I was grade 6 too and now I forgot (I'm in grade 10) now I have to memories some of the lines again😭

[@philosamk9908]

We learnt this poem by- heart about 53 years ago in school, still remember the poem and often delve on the beauty of the scene 'beside the lake, beneath the trees, fluttering their heads in sprightly dance' ...... 'And oft upon my couch I lie, in vacant or in pensive mood, they flash upon my inward eye, which is the bliss of solitude '.....

[@butterpecan9749]

Wordsworth is indeed worth a praise. After hearing this, I travelled back in time when I was in a youngin in school... dispersed are those days, but Robert Frost & William Wordsworth remain my favorite poets. Thank you for posting.

[@arjunaninditasinha2430]

I read it at 4th standard when I was 10, it was a happy poem; but after 5 years, Daffodils has changed to something else.

[@andrewv8790]

Beautiful poem, so exemplifies one's childhood. innocent and pure.

[@yvonnevazsaxena6712]

I learnt this poem in school. It's one of the many beautiful poems I remember even today.

[@coneyisland6793]

The first poem I ever learnt by heart as a child. It conjures up such wonderful memories. Approaching sixty, I love it still and remember every word.

[@rocketsinghism]

Poems can not just a sensitive heart, but have the ability to chage the world!

[@samudra_dasgupta]

We were taught this in grade 7… one of the most inspirational teachers… shinjini maam… she made us visualize the rows of daffodils…. and how our hearts danced with the daffodils 🌼🤗

[@fury1920]

We were taught in grade 9... And my English teacher name was Shusmita Dasgupta Really missing her

[@bhesojbaruah6265]

As many as Ten thousand Daffodils ........ Really , the sight of Daffodils being the Food to the mind & Feast to the eyes of the Poet ...... A Joccunt Company !!

[@surabilakshmimenon1876]

Wonderful to hear our childhood memories come flooding in, can still remember every word, of the dancing Daffodils by WW.

[@Raking_01]

I'm a ninth grade student and in my syllabus contains daffodils. I was given a task to find out Similes and Imagery of this master piece and got blessed to do that. Really a poem that enhances the long term thinking.

[@gajananmalokar6007]

Whenever I read or listen 'The Daffodils' And then my heart with pleasure fills And dances with the Daffodils

[@vivianshima4177]

It’s strange how one word can affect a person this much. He was the quietest and loudest person at the same time. In the class, he didn’t talk much but he expressed much, I heard not his voice but his passion. To my high school friend who used to call me daffodils. And told me that i reminded him of daffodils from his garden in childhood.. I hope you know that I will be craving our days always.

[@amelittaberretta9109]

Many generations had to memorize this eternal poem from Wordsworth.

[@ASHOKSHARMA-co3pj]

I have learned this poem during my school days and I also remember by hearting it fully and writing it with the annotations word by word without a mistake...

[@ashutoshbajpai7888]

What can be better than this...a joy and calmness discovered in solitude....❤

[@amirdhasv3201]

Brings back my school days memories..I could recite the poem word by word even now (I am 54).

[@ErikHouse]

I remember looking up poets in college studying rhyme schemes and ran cross William Wordsmith work, most definitely one of the greatest writers in the world of poetry

[@sophiakalkin]

My favourite....i still remember the class when my mam took this poem... Poetry is spontaneous overflow of words....i still remember the words she used...i am 36 now.....OMG.... Wordsworth never dies nor my english mam mrs.jane.....he still lives through his poem....he still lives in me fresh and pleasant....

[@amirdhasv3201]

Yes. We had to memorize this poem in my school. I remember each word even now in my 50's...

[@wellwisher3912]

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[@anilshirsat4406]

The poem has the capacity to make me again a school boy, and fill the same attitude, of those days. Thanks to the great Poet of time 🙏

[@NathanShines]

I was the 56th like and at this time there's no dislikes. I have faith in humanity.

[@LonelyManBGs]

Now 200.

[@patryciam.p.1017]

400 😍

[@Prigozhyn227]

1k likes 11 dislikes

[@mjrussell414]

Nathan Montoya Now 20 dislikes. What they don’t know is that Wordsworth has been dead for almost 200 years and his feelings aren’t hurt by their disapproval.

[@clariceerreguin4774]

Humanity will suprise you sometimes. It is a beautiful poem and the way it is read makes you envision that you are right there watching the daffodils dancing in the breeze.

[@ManjuSingh-io6ix]

This poem takes me down memory lane i remember during Spring time yellow wild flowers growing in patches all over the country side !!Nature is so amazing 🥰😘😍🌺❤️

[@williamfahey6066]

To date , This is my Favorite Poem ! It is Beautiful ! And, It made me cry. I have never been moved to tears by a Poem before. But , This one did it. Thank You Mr. William Wordsworth and Mr. Victor Vertunni and RedFrost Motivation. Jeff

[@samataha858]

it takes your whole soul with the poem

[@berniefleming2766]

Has been my FAVOURITE poem mum along with us would chant this poem 74yrs and still can an close my eyes and recite. I feel children have been robbed if future MEMORIES when poetry an I mean poetry was abolished from school. Who does not delight in the HIGHWAYMAN. LUCY GREY THE WRECK IF THE HESPERUS

[@lynnnina3878]

The most memorable favourite poem during the most precious childhood d a ys. The whole class would read this with so much joys and enthusiasm. Priceless, magical,soothing to the ears.

[@sheilacasper2030]

Daffodils are full of glee! This is a lovely poem.

[@sulo1039]

Thank you for letting me find this poem after so many years. There is something very special about it. It stuck in many of our minds and souls from long ago school days. Our schools were so enlightened then, compared to what they are today. We had to study Latin, because it was formative and the basis of learning other languages. We had civic education, journalism, music lessons, chorus, band and orchestra. We had culture. These last generations are dumb and impoverished of strength and vitality, brainwashed and culturally ignorant. So sad.

[@thehalfmonk9729]

I love this poem...had read this in school but every words still spells the same magic as it did then. Thank you for this nice recitation

[@neelanair5002]

Very nostalgic.Wish we were taught Tagores poems to,They are as rich and inspirational.

[@tanvinator]

Do we deserve this masterpiece?

[@maryann7619]

Yes.

[@frankmalinaro9700]

I love poems that rhyme , rhyming words are so comforting & healing to my soul.

[@arati.behera]

They flash upon the inward eye -he feels eternal peace through meditation. He was very much sensitive to nature. My father read it in 60,s &read in college.

[@bernadetteraikar8822]

My most loved poem. I still remember it by heart. It was a pleasure listening to the recitation

[@swatichauhan7912]

I still remember the lines of this poem ... It's a really memorable poem cuz it takes you to that place in your head even without you moving an inch just by reading it in rhythm ..

[@davidlutz2484]

Victor's voice is so mellifluous that I felt as if I was there gazing at the crowd of golden daffodils.

[@neliabacali3310]

Listening to this poem " The Daffodils" brings back memories of my high school days in the late '50's (am now in my 80's) where we students had fun memorizing stanzas from poems of Wordsworth, Longfellow and other American authors. My classmates and I used to memorize in chorus during break time , or had a contest to find out who memorized the stanza without mistake. What fun days we had. Memories !!!

[@reyhosein2533]

Oh I do remember this lovely poem as a child, so descriptive, I can literally see them dancing in the wind.

[@sulbhaladdha3700]

Had memorized this poem in school. It felt so good to hear it again after 45yrs. Thanks.

[@YorkshireinManila]

My Mums favourite poem. The last time I saw her, when my sister and I put her to bed I read this to her and knew it would probably be the last time I would see her as I was living /working in Asia and she was in England. She had no idea who she was, having had her once vibrant memory destroyed and stolen by dementia. And sure enough a year later her body gave up. But on hearing this poem , at the " daffodils" word there came a small shy smile, perhaps at some distant extant memory of who she once was.

[@rajinees2122]

It brings back nostalgic memories of my college days.

[@malvinderkaur4187]

A walk in blooming meadow Lying down in balmy sunshine A child's carefree laughter A shy kiss and embrace A sigh of fulfillment A bite of something sweet A good book by my side And what else can a heart desire more, which already feels full to the brim.

[@krishnanath8446]

One of my favourite poem along with Wordsworth Lucy poems. We had to memorise them by heart at schools! What fun & they are the best memories!

[@digantikabera8413]

The voice is so soothing 😌 that made me feel that I was into another world.

[@padmanabmariyappa6524]

William wordsworth is my favourite guru. He inspires me a lot

[@Ashish_racing]

This poem reminds me of my school days ❤

[@hannahlynn8028]

i wish these were on spotify

[@0otee]

Those fresh spontaneous open near first color yellow DAFFODILS every Spring🌞❣️👌Blessing of Nature, giving us joy forever🌞

[@Sam-jo5lu]

Stunningly fascinating poem, I genuinely admire the stimulation and profoundness in writing of Wordsworth ❤️❤️

[@catherinecrew1739]

I had to recite this poem in primary school. Many years ago,it’s still a favourite of mine.

[@reginagracias1599]

I remembered my school days but it was just a recitation but now could understand the meaning of each n every word.

[@Black_heron613]

I can't put my feeling into words when i heard this poem.I just felt summer rain splashed on my wilted ...refreshing

[@somamondal1913]

Listening to the poem,suddenly remembered we had to learn this by heart and recite in class! Simply loved it.❤️❤️