{"id":5717,"date":"2014-04-07T09:16:07","date_gmt":"2014-04-07T16:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/?p=5717"},"modified":"2014-04-07T09:39:03","modified_gmt":"2014-04-07T16:39:03","slug":"april-is-national-poetry-month-daffodils-by-william-wordsworth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.pugetsound.edu\/collinsunbound\/april-is-national-poetry-month-daffodils-by-william-wordsworth\/","title":{"rendered":"April is National Poetry Month: “Daffodils” by William Wordsworth"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"CALLOUT_Daffodils\"<\/a>Want more poetry?\u00a0 Go to http:\/\/www.poets.org\/.<\/a>\u00a0 Read about the Poet to Poet project or the Poem in Your Pocket Project.<\/p>\n

Today\u2019s poetry selection is from Collins Librarian, Jane Carlin. Learn more about this famous British poet by visiting the Biography Resource Center and searching for articles on Wordsworth.<\/p>\n

Daffodils<\/strong><\/p>\n

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I wandered lonely as a cloud
\nThat floats on high o’er vales and hills,
\nWhen all at once I saw a crowd,
\nA host, of golden daffodils;
\nBeside the lake, beneath the trees,
\nFluttering and dancing in the breeze.<\/p>\n

Continuous as the stars that shine
\nAnd twinkle on the milky way,
\nThey stretched in never-ending line
\nAlong the margin of a bay:
\nTen thousand saw I at a glance,
\nTossing their heads in sprightly dance.<\/p>\n

The waves beside them danced; but they
\nOut-did the sparkling waves in glee:
\nA poet could not but be gay,
\nIn such a jocund company:
\nI gazed–and gazed–but little thought
\nWhat wealth the show to me had brought:<\/p>\n

For oft, when on my couch I lie
\nIn vacant or in pensive mood,
\nThey flash upon that inward eye
\nWhich is the bliss of solitude;
\nAnd then my heart with pleasure fills,
\nAnd dances with the daffodils.<\/p>\n

– William Wordsworth<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

Check out the You Tube Video:\u00a0 http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EK9UWpYuZiE<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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