The Daffodils

Daffodils is the most famous poem in the English Language, so it really is a privilege and a pleasure for me to set it to music.

The Daffodils

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;
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:
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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.
Published in Collected Poems, 1815

William Wordsworth

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The Wordsworth Trust

Recording Notes
Recorded at Contact Studio, Tallaght, Dublin 24. Vocalist and Guitarist Tony Bardon.  Backing Vocalist Danai Kelleher. Recording Engineer and Instrumentalist Garry Horan