A Welsh legend goes something like “the one who sees the season’s first daffodil will have blessings of wealth in the new year”. The English poet William Wordsworth (1770–1850) echoes the sentiment of ...

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. From ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Angelina Villa-Clarke is a London-based travel journalist. How Wordsworth would have viewed the clouds from Dove Cottage's gardens ...

Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Looking for a free mini puzzle? Play the USA TODAY Quick Cross now. Fluttering and dancing in the breeze." ... words from William Wordsworth's poem, "Daffodils," ...

"I gazed--and gazed--but little thought What wealth the show to me had brought: And then my heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils." -- Excerpts from Daffodils, by William Wordsworth ...

IN THIS SEASON of cancelled parties, the 250th anniversary of William Wordsworth’s birth will also go unmarked in public. Celebrations of the English poet, born on April 7th 1770, should have bloomed ...

During a recent session of New Zealand’s parliament, government lawmaker Sarah Pallett rose to recite “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth, a poem that used literary language to ...