Who wrote the poem 'I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud'?

Who wrote “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud”? William Wordsworth wrote the poem. Also known as “Daffodils,” it is one of the best-known lyric poems of English Romanticism.

The poem was inspired by a real walk Wordsworth took with his sister Dorothy on April 15, 1802, near Ullswater in England’s Lake District. Dorothy’s journal described seeing a long belt of daffodils beside the water. Wordsworth wrote the poem in 1804, and it was first published in 1807 in Poems, in Two Volumes. He later revised it, including changes to the descriptions of the flowers and the surrounding scene.

The poem has four six-line stanzas and an ABABCC rhyme scheme. Its central idea is that a remembered encounter with nature can provide lasting emotional comfort, even when the speaker is alone indoors. Readers sometimes call it simply “Daffodils,” but that is an alternate title, not a different poem.