(Suddenly it made me feel why i did not like these much earlier)
Daffodills
(Or I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud)
By William Wordsworth
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.
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i’m at a loss for words today
or what I mean to say
is that the words i’d hope to use
have simply run away!
i put up signs all over town
and offered a reward
of every punctuation mark
if all my words are found
i’m really feeling quite distraught
I know it’s all my fault
so busy laying tracks of verse
I lost my train of thought
they shouldn’t be too hard to find
they don’t blend in so well
selected to stand out in crowds
exceptionally combined
a few of them inspire awe
and none of them made up
I even had a rhyme for orange
so simple you’d guffaw
clearly from this poem you see
none of those words are here
so if you find my words then please
return my words to me
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ANIMALS BY Brian Bilston
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