...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...sweet will: Dear God! The very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still! (Joe slowly closes the book. In the near distance, Big Ben...

...example of Wordsworth's willingness to find in the city a locus of creative power: Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could...sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still!4 Wordsworth's title gives a specific place and date, the...

...fields of snow. 123 Sonnef: Composed Upon Wesfm/nsfer Bridge WILLIAM WORDSWORTH Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could...sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still! Westminster Bridge] ie across the River Thames in London...

...not confined to cities - even the greatest of all Lake Poets could join in: Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could...sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still! 'Sonnet: Composed upon Westminster Bridge' Wordsworth (1807)...

...Spring Gardens (a site in the Strand not far, indeed, from the Bridge itself)-' 5 Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could...a calm so deep! The river glideth at his own sweet will: And all that mighty heart is lying still!' 6 Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; Benjamin,...

...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...sweet will: Dear God! The very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still! The sense of latent, quiescent power stems less from the...

...dedicated. Blake and the City Introduction: On Blake, the City, and Romanticism EARTH has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could...sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still! — Wordsworth, "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge"1 Rivers...

...could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. Composed Upon Westminster Bridge 1802 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! Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey Five years...

...bare, Ships, powers, domes, theaters, and temples lie Open unto the fields, and to the sky; All right and glittering in the smokeless air. Never did sun...saw I, never felt, a calm so deep! The river glideth that his own sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying...

...untrue, Like a book on rising beautiful and true. — Stevens, "Auroras of Autumn" Earth has not anything to show more fair: Dull would he be of soul who could...sweet will: Dear God! the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still! — Wordsworth, "Composed upon Westminster Bridge" I turn...