Composed upon Westminster Bridge

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Source: Project Gutenberg #8774: Poems in Two Volumes, Volume 1 (1807) Source URL: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/8774 Public domain basis: Published 1807; public domain. Coverage: Complete: the 1807 first-edition text (Wordsworth dated it Sept. 3, 1803; the crossing was 31 July 1802).

Composed upon Westminster Bridge

14. COMPOSED UPON WESTMINSTER BRIDGE, Sept. 3, 1803.

Earth has not any thing to shew more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now doth like a garment wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun more beautifully steep In his first splendor valley, rock, or hill; Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!