Panel poster; Poems on the Underground, Composed upon Westminster Bridge, by William Wordsworth, 1986

• Physical description

  Dimensions

  Attribute	Value
  Height	280mm
  Width	610mm
  Descriptive size	Panel poster

  Item content

  Attribute	Value
  Object title	Composed upon Westminster Bridge
  Text	Poems on the Underground / COMPOSED UPON / WESTMINSTER / BRIDGE / Sept. 3, 1803 / William Wordsworth / 1770-1850 / born in Cumberland / wrote Lyrical Ballads, 1798 / Poet Laureate / The Compton Poetry Fund / Faber and Faber Publishers Ltd / Oxford University Press / The British Council / Greater London Arts / 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!

  Design

  Attribute	Value
  Material	Paper

• People involved

  Role	Person(s) involved
  Commissioner	Poems on the Underground, 1986
  Poet	William Wordsworth,
  Publisher	London Underground Ltd, 1986