Extract 1

1. I wandered lonely as a cloud

2. That floats on high o'er vales and hills,

3. When all at once I saw a crowd,

4. A host, of golden daffodils;

5. Beside the lake, beneath the trees,

6. Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.

Extract 2

7. Continuous as the stars that shine

8. And twinkle on the milky way,

9. They stretched in never-ending line

10. Along the margin of a bay:

11. Ten thousand saw I at a glance,

12. Tossing their heads in sprightly dance.

Extract 3

13. The waves beside them danced; but they

14. Out-did the sparkling waves in glee:

15. A poet could not but be gay,

16. In such a jocund company:

17. I gazed—and gazed—but little thought

18. What wealth the show to me had brought: