On this day in 1802, William Wordsworth completed the sonnet, "Composed Upon Westminster Bridge," one of his best known short poems. The actual moment on the bridge had come a month earlier, and been described this way in notes made by Wordsworth's sister, Dorothy, at the time:
We mounted the Dover Coach at Charing Cross. It was a beautiful morning. The City, St. Paul's, with the River and a Multitude of little boats, made a most beautiful sight.... The houses were not overhung with their cloud of smoke and they were spread out endlessly, yet the sun shone so brightly with such pure light that there was even something like a purity of Nature's own grand spectacles ... FULL STORY »
