William Wordsworth - 8 - Christopher Hassall torrent

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!


Christopher Hassall reads poems of Wordsworth (from an early 1950s LP). Kindly seed.
William Wordsworth - 1 - Ian McKellen reads from The Prelude 

William Wordsworth - 2 - John Rowe 

William Wordsworth - 3 - Robert Hardy 

William Wordsworth - 4 - William Squire & Peter Orr 

William Wordsworth - 5 - Penguin Audiobooks 

William Wordsworth - 6 - Cedric Hardwicke

William Wordsworth - 7 - Kenneth Cranham & Alex Jennings