Westminster Bridge with Westminster Hall as drawn by Augustus Pugin and Thomas Rowlandson for Ackermann's Microcosm of London (1

"Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802" is a sonnet by William Wordsworth describing London, viewed from this bridge over the Thames, in the early morning. It was first published in 1807:

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 splendor, valley, rock, or hill; . . .
The river glideth at his own sweet will.

Shakespeare has innumerable verses devoted to the beauty of morning light, such as Sonnet 33:

Full many a glorious morning have I seen
Flatter the mountain tops with sovereign eye,
Kissing with golden face the meadows green,
Gilding pale streams with heavenly alchemy.

Westminster Hall (the broad roof to the right of the twin towers of Westminster Abbey, far left) is the setting for scenes in Shakespeare's history plays, such as "Richard II." Picture and some data courtesy of the Yorck Project, under Creative Commons Attribution-Share- Alike License (Wikipedia).