I wandered lonely as a cloud

Cultural  

1. The first line of the poem “Daffodils,” by William Wordsworth. It begins:

   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.

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Example Sentences

It was a lovely poem by Mr. William Wordsworth, called “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” although nowadays most people simply know it as “Daffodils,” as that is what the poem is about.

From Literature

Inspired by William Wordsworth's poem I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, it was led by Ullswater Valley-based potter Helen Ratcliffe, and made by 500 volunteers.

From BBC

The pedagogical strategy of “close reading” that evolved in Eliot’s wake, wherein students are taught to focus exclusively on the words on the page—and taught that the “I” of “I wandered lonely as a cloud” is not Wordsworth but the poem’s speaker, a literary character—these are the starting points of every consequential contemporary literary-critical argument.

From The New Yorker

Her husband is with Sonia, listening to their youngest recite poetry in that beautiful lilting voice of hers: "I wandered lonely as a cloud, that floats on high o'er vales and hills..."

From Literature

Listen to actress Noma Dumezweni on the Today programme read one of the best-known poems in the English language; William Wordsworth's 'I wandered lonely as a cloud', which is also commonly known as 'Daffodils'.

From BBC