Daffodils - William Wordsworth read by Jeremy Irons

I WANDER'D 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, 5

Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.  

  

Continuous as the stars that shine  

  And twinkle on the Milky Way,  

They stretch'd in never-ending line  

  Along the margin of a bay:  10

Ten thousand saw I at a glance,  

Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.  

  

The waves beside them danced, but they  

  Outdid the sparkling waves in glee:—  

A poet could not but be gay  15

  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,  20

They flash upon that inward eye  

  Which is the bliss of solitude;  

And then my heart with pleasure fills,  

And dances with the daffodils.