4 Wordsworth Songs

Song Cycle by Michael Short (b. 1937)

?. Upon Westminster Bridge  [sung text not yet checked]

Language: English 
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!

Text Authorship:

  • by William Wordsworth (1770 - 1850), "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1803", from Poems, Volume I, first published 1807, later revised

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Researcher for this text: Emily Ezust [Administrator]
Total word count: 109