A bridge over the River Thames, completed in November 1750, linking Westminster on the west with Lambeth on the east. In William Wordsworth's sonnet, "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802", the speaker meditates on the view from London that is, one supposes, seen from the bridge:
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. (4-8)
Click HERE to see a painting of Westminster Bridge by Daniel Turner (1800).
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