![]() ![]() The falls and surrounding are of Gowbarrow Park are owned by National Trust, as is the area of Glencoyne Bay known as Wordsworth Point.Īnother place to see a fine display of daffodils associated with William Wordsworth is at Dora’s Field, beside his former home at Rydal Mount. ![]() ![]() William Wordsworth was a frequent visitor to the Ullswater area, and wrote three poems about Aira Force, the most well known being ‘ The Somnambulist’ – an ancient tale of knightly love and death, of which the last verse seems to catch the spirit of Aira Force. That floats on high o’er vales and hills, You normally have to be bashed about a bit by life to see the point of daffodils, sunsets, and uneventful nice days. Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul. The Bays were stormy, and we heard the waves at different distances and in the middle of the water like the sea’.ĭorothy Wordsworth, The Grasmere Journal – Thursday 15 April 1802.Īlthough it is not recorded, it is almost certain that this gave William the inspiration to write his most famous poem, ‘Daffodils’. Then my heart, with pleasure, fills and dances with the daffodils. They are perennials and of the bulbous variety. Wordsworths daffodils poem was originally titled, I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud. There was here and there a little knot and a few stragglers a few yards higher up but they were so few as not to disturb the simplicity and unity and life of that one busy highway. Daffodils is a spring flowering plant from the hardy family of Amaryllis and subfamily Amaryllidoideae. This wind blew directly over the lake to them. I never saw daffodils so beautiful they grew among the mossy stones about and about them, some rested their heads upon these stones as on a pillow for weariness and the rest tossed and reeled and danced and seemed as if they verily laughed with the wind that blew upon them over the lake, they looked so gay ever dancing ever changing. But as we went along there were more and more and at last under the boughs of the trees, we saw that there was a long belt of them along the shore, about the breadth of a country turnpike road. We fancied that the lake had floated the seed ashore and that the little colony had so sprung up. ‘When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park, we saw a few daffodils close to the water side. On 15th April 1802, William and Dorothy Wordsworth passed the strip of land at Glencoyne Bay, Ullswater, on their way back to Grasmere after staying the previous night at Eusmere in Pooley Bridge. William Wordsworth was one of the founders of English Romanticism and one its most central figures and important intellects. That floats on high oer vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and. When William and Dorothy Wordsworth visited Glencoyne Park on 15 April 1802, the visit gave Wordsworth the inspiration to write his most famous poem, ‘ Daffodils ‘. ![]()
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