Does the questioner want to ask "Who wrote "I Walk Lonely Like Clouds"? William Wordsworth. I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud was written by William Wordsworth. "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" was written in 1802, after the poet and his sister took a walk through a field of daffodils. William Wordsworth was born in 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumbria, a scenic mountainous area in northwest England known as the Lake District. The second of five children, he was sent to Hawkshead Grammar School after his mother's death when he was eight.