I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
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"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" is a lyric poem by William Wordsworth. It is one of his most popular, and was inspired by an encounter on 15 April 1802 during a walk with his younger sister Dorothy, wh
A hand-written manuscript of the poem (1804). British Library Add. MS 47864
Ullswater in the English Lake District. Ullswater from Gobarrow Park by J. M. W. Turner, watercolour, 1819. Gobarrow Park is on the north side of Ullswater, so Wordsworth's daffodils would have been on the nearer shore – near the cows perhaps?
Narcissus pseudonarcissus, the "daffodil" native to the Lake District
The title page of Poems, in Two Volumes
Dorothy Wordsworth
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Dorothy Mae Ann Wordsworth was an English author, poet, and diarist. She was the sister of the Romantic poet William Wordsworth, and the two were close all their adult lives. Dorothy Wordsworth had no
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
…lyric poem by William Wordsworth. It is one of his most popular, and was inspired by an encounter on 15 April 1802 during a walk with his younger sister Dorothy, when they saw a "long belt" of daffodils on the shore of Ullswater in the English Lake District. Written in 1804, this 24-line lyric was first published…
Drawing of Dorothy Wordsworth in middle age
Wordsworth on Helvellyn by Benjamin Robert Haydon