His favourite since childhood 💙 I dedicate this most beautiful poem and song to my big brother, Billy; I'm sure missing you these days !!! This video is an original by Pete Lashley. All right are reserved by him. No copyright infringements apply. For our listening pleasure only.
"I Wondered Lonely As A Cloud"
A Poem written by William Wordsworth
Music written and performed by Pete Lashley
From the Pete Lashley Album "Magic Corner"
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Pete has added a captivating vocal melody and beautifully fingerpicked guitar to accompany William Wordsworth's famous poem ''I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud'. The poem, also known as 'Daffodils', was written by Wordsworth in 1804. It was inspired by a walk William took with his sister, Dorothy in the Gowbarrow Park area of Lake Ullswater a couple of years earlier.
In Dorothy's journal entry, there is reference to an encounter with the golden daffodils which William remembers affectionately “dancing in the breeze' in his famous poem. Clearly this encounter had a profound affect on Wordworth's feelings when viewing it retrospectively through his mind's eye.
The song 'I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud' features on Pete Lashley's album "Magic Corner". It was recorded by Sam Parkinson at Stonegate Studios, Bentham, UK.
ABOUT: Pete Lashley arrived back in England in April 2001 following a memorable 6 month busking session which took him and a couple of friends across New Zealand and Australia, thrilling street crowds with great spontaneous music....Performances followed in the streets of Wellington, Adelaide, Sydney and Melbourne.
Following this once in a lifetime experience Pete realized he wanted to concentrate full-time on performing and songwriting.
Thus began his second musical journey !!! Please enjoy this fine musician's gift of music.
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"I Wondered Lonely As A Cloud"
By William Wordsworth in 1804
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:
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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William Wordsworth (7 April 1770 – 23 April 1850) was an English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads (1798).
The second of five children born to John Wordsworth and Ann Cookson, William Wordsworth was born on 7 April 1770 in what is now named Wordsworth House in Cockermouth, Cumberland, part of the scenic region in northwestern England known as the Lake District. William's sister, the poet and diarist Dorothy Wordsworth, to whom he was close all his life, was born the following year. They had three other siblings: Richard, the eldest, who became a lawyer; John, born after Dorothy, who went to sea and died in 1805 when the ship of which he was captain, the Earl of Abergavenny, was wrecked off the south coast of England; and Christopher.
William Wordsworth died at home at Rydal Mount from an aggravated case of pleurisy on 23 April 1850 and was buried at St Oswald's Church, Grasmere. His wife, Mary, published his lengthy autobiographical "Poem to Coleridge" as The Prelude several months after his death. Though it failed to interest people at the time, it has since come to be widely recognised as his masterpiece.
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