Literary non-fiction Flat to Rent in London works include Samuel Pepys' diary, in which he recorded
many events relating to the Thames including the Fire of London.
He was disturbed while writing it in June 1667 by the sound of gunfire
as Dutch warships broke through the Royal Navy on the Thames.
In poetry, William Wordsworth's sonnet On Westminster Bridge closes
Flat to Rent in London with the lines:
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!
T. S. Eliot references makes several references to the Thames in
The Fire Sermon, Flat to Rent in London Section III of
The Waste Land.
Sweet Thames run softly, till I end my song.
The river bears no empty bottles, sandwich papers,
Silk handkerchiefs, cardboard boxes cigarette ends
Or other testimony of summer nights.
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