I floated freely as a cloud...?

Question

I heard this was the first line of a poem somewhere, can someone point me towards the name / author of the poem?

Answer 1

"I wandered as lonely as a cloud...." is both the opening line and the name of the poem.
Try looking up the works of William Wordsworth.

Answer 2

William Wordsworth:

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.

Answer 3

Actually, I like the somewhat prosaic version by his Lake Districts counterpart, Billy Jobsworth;
"I wondered, lonely as a cow..."

Cud 'nt remember much more, but I'm sure it goes fodder than that....

Answer 4

I laundered lonely with a sow?