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William Wordsworth

Credited with launching the Romantic Age in English poetry along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, William Wordsworth was born on April 7, 1770 in Cockermouth, Cumberland, the second of five children. After

Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802

by William Wordsworth (1770–1850)

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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, theaters, 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

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