 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...  A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets - Page 494by Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 715 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Leigh Hunt - 1834 - 342 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...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." XIX.— A TALE FOR... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Religion and science - 1834 - 608 pages
...lament What man has made of man ?' Wordsworth's Poems, v. 5. p. 214. ' My heart leapt up when I beheld A rainbow in the sky, So was it, when my life began;...now I am a man : So be it when I .shall grow old. So, let me die, The child is father of the man. And I could wish my days to he Bound, each to each,... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Almanacs - 1834 - 432 pages
...HEART LEAPS. MY heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky 5 So was it when my life began j 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 j And I could wish my days to be; Bound each to each, by natural piety. ENVY. ENVV is one of the meanest... | |
 | 1835 - 616 pages
...Ga-.пt..И Hlfh School, July Hah. 189). MEANS OF CULTIVATING YOUTHFUL FEELINGS. " 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." — Wordsworth. THE feeling which... | |
 | Alexander Whitelaw - English literature - 1835 - 470 pages
...childhood are vanished and o'er ! [Literary Souvenir.] T. K, HERVEV. MY HEAKT LEAPS. 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 I The Child is Father of the Man ; And I could wisl* my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English essays - 1835 - 350 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...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." XIX.— A TALE FOR... | |
 | Science - 1836 - 866 pages
...harmony. " My heart leaps up when I behokl 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 would wish my days to be Hound each In each bii natural piety." Charlton, the village of Charlton,... | |
 | Theology - 1839 - 536 pages
...the heart that leaps not up with it. and joins not in its fervent prayer. " 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." Here is a high-born poet's soul... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Creation - 1838 - 448 pages
...reason to lament What man has made of man !" Ibid. v. 5. p. 114. i t " My bean leaped up when I beheld A rainbow in the sky, So was it, when my life began...it now I am a man : So be it when I shall grow old, So, let me die. The child is father of the man. And I could wish my days to be Bound, each to each,... | |
 | Religion - 1839 - 542 pages
...the heart that leaps not up with it. and joins not in its fervent prayer. " 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." Here is a high-born poet's soul... | |
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