Valentine’s Suggestion For Those That Don’t Go In For All That Mushy Stuff
Poems are always a good bet when trying to impress the ladies. Depending on your delivery, she’ll either think your super sensitive (good) or find you hilariously funny (better). Either way you can’t lose.
If the idea of spouting frilly lines of ancient verse makes you squirm in your seat, why not try a more modern approach.
Originally an advert for The Lake District in Northern England, here is a 21st century interpretation of William Wordsworth’s 1804 poem Daffodils.
Full text of the actual poem, should you need to say…write it in a card or similar, is below:
“Daffodils” (1804)
I WANDER’D 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 stretch’d 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.
