[New-Poetry] Wordsworth

[Anny Ballardini]

from today's Writer's Almanac:

Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802

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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!*

"Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802" by William Wordsworth.
Public domain. From *The Collected Works of William Wordsworth*. (buy
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