...WESTMINSTER BRIDGE Earth has not anything to show more fair: ull would he be of soul who could pass by A sight so touching in its majesty: This City now...sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still! ©DISCUSSION It's not too often that a poem in praise of...

...silent, bare, Ships, towers, domes, theatres and temples lie Open into the fields and to the sky. All bright and glittering in the smokeless air. Never...sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still! Paraphrase (Wordsworth) Nothing on earth is fairer than this...

...in its majesty: This City now doth, like a garment, wear The beauty of the morning; silent, bare, 5 Ships, towers, domes, theatres, and temples lie Open...steep In his first splendour, valley, rock, or hill; 10 Ne'er saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: Dear God! 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;...sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still! (Wordsworth) Paraphrase Nothing on earth is fairer than this...