William Wordsworth
Upon Westminster Bridge
EARTH has not anything to show 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 splendour 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!
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| About the poet |
| William Wordsworth |
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| By the same poet |
| Desideria |
| The Reaper |
| Daffodils |
| Lucy (i) |
| Lucy (ii) |
| Lucy (iii) |
| Lucy (iv) |
| Lucy (v) |
| Evening on Calais Beach |
| On the Extinction of the Venetian Republic, 1802 |
| England, 1802 (i) |
| England, 1802 (ii) |
| England, 1802 (iii) |
| England, 1802 (iv) |
| England, 1802 (v) |
| Perfect Woman |
| Ode to Duty |
| The Rainbow |
| The Sonnet (i) |
| The Sonnet (ii) |
| The World |
| Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood |
| Valedictory Sonnet to the River Duddon |
| Mutability |
| The Trosachs |
| Speak! |
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| Related books |
| Earth Has Not Any Thing to Shew More Fair, Peter Oswald (Editor), Alice Oswald (Editor), Robert Woof (Editor) |
| William Wordsworth at amazon.com |
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