 | Sharon Turner - Creation - 1844 - 452 pages
...man 1" Ibid. v. 5. p. 214. " My heart leaped up when I beheld A rainbow in the sky, So was it, ti'hin my life began ; So is it now I am a man : So be it when I shall grow old, So, let me die. The child is father of tke man. And I could wish my days to be Bound, each to each,... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...Mercy gives me leave to die. 1795-6. POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF CHILDHOOD. MY heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my...man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! The Child is father of the Man ; And I could wish my days to bo Bound each to each by natural piety.... | |
 | 1868 - 844 pages
...almost see the plumes of angels ascending and descending. Wordsworth says : — " My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky ; So was it when my...man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! The child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety."... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1845 - 926 pages
...through the dam above, and was coming down upon us in a torrent. CHAPTER VII. My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my...man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! The child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...die. 1795-6. POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF CHILDHOOD. Mr heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow ul the sky : So was it when my life began ; So is it...man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! The Child is father of the Man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 540 pages
...they peopled the place with robbers and serpents, we were peopling it with sylvans and fairies. " So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old ; Or let me die ! The child is father to the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety."... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 544 pages
...they peopled the place with robbers and serpents, we were peopling it with sylvans and fairies. " So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old ; Or let me die ! The child is father to the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety."... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 520 pages
...they peopled the place with robbers and serpents, we were peopling it with sylvans and fairies. " So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old ; Or let me die ! The child is father to the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety."... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...world, like the music of one's native tongue heard in some far-off country. " My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my life began, So is it now I am a man, So shall it be when I grow old and die. The child 's the father of the man, And I would have my years... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Antirent War, N.Y., 1839-1846 - 1845 - 482 pages
...way through the dam above, and was .coming down upon us in a torrent. 2» CHAPTER II. A rainbow i» the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shalt grow old, Or let me die! My heart leaps up when I behold The child is father of the man; And... | |
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My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! " The child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural... 
