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One of my neighbors has a
front yard in the same condition. Passing by as I walked my dog, I saw the lady of the house doing gardening work among the blooms. I greeted her with: A host, of golden daffodils!
She called my hand and raised: Beside the lake, beneath the trees … We finished the stanza in unison. Bless my literate neighbors.
Is Daffodils the best-known poem in our language? I d be happy to think so: it s a gem of a poem.
Thirty years ago the British radio station Classic FM asked listeners to name their favorite poems. They ranked the top hundred poems named, then published a set of cassette tapes (remember cassette tapes?) of actors reading them. Daffodils was number one, read by actress Sandra Duncan.