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... Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets - Page 494by Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 715 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 772 pages
...* [Altered from The Pet Lamb, PW p. 80.— SC] f PW p. 2, line 7. " My heart leaps up when I bchold A rainbow in the sky ; So was it when my life began...man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die I The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety."... | |
 | James Parton - 1864 - 720 pages
...collected works, and upon which Coleridge so fondly comments in the Friend : " My heart leaps up when I behold A Rainbow in the sky ; So was it when my...now I am a Man : So be it when I shall grow old, Or Jet me die ! The Child is Father of the Man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by... | |
 | 1864 - 694 pages
...are excited by such natural appearances as, more or less, delight all men. " My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my...began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I slinll grow old, The child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1865 - 316 pages
...different, lost Star, from thine, That no to-morrow shall our beams restore ! cxx MY heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my...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. CXXI ODE: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY... | |
 | Roger Lundin, Anthony C. Thiselton, Clarence Walhout - Philosophy - 1999 - 280 pages
...snatched this same authority from the adult and bestowed it upon the child: My heart leaps up when I behold A Rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life...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.45 Where Augustinian orthodoxy had... | |
 | Laura Quinney - 1999 - 232 pages
...later make his prayer for continuity with a chipperness that turns macabre: My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky; So was it when my life...man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! ("My Heart Leaps Up," i-6) The lines that follow, used as an epigraph for the Intimations Ode, show... | |
 | David Bell - Psychology - 1999 - 248 pages
...Wordsworth: My heart leaps up when I behold A Rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So be 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 piety. (Wordsworth, 1994, p. 122) Now... | |
 | David L. Larsen - Religion - 644 pages
...French. 7. New York: Harper, 1978. 7.3.2 WORDSWORTH, " KING-POET" OF THE ROMANTICS My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky; So was it when my life...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 "My Heart... | |
 | Laurence Coupe - Literary Criticism - 2000 - 346 pages
...his, between the lines 'To the Memory of Sir Isaac Newton' and 'A Rainbow': My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life...old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man, And I would wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. In Wordsworth's poem there is the... | |
 | Matthew J. B. Campbell, Jacqueline M. Labbe, Sally Shuttleworth - History - 2000 - 266 pages
...stored beneath the level of consciousness. When Wordsworth writes of the legacy: My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky. So was it when my life...man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! resonance is that which is effected in the next, most famous line: The Child is father of the Man Crucially... | |
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