 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
 | Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - Poetry - 2007 - 544 pages
...hath all. SIR HENRY WOTTON ENGLISH (1568-1639) My heart leaps up when I behold 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 ENGLISH (1770-1850)... | |
 | F. Lynne Bachleda - Nature - 2004 - 220 pages
...Mystics MY HEART LEAPS UP WHEN I BEHOLD My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So it was when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be...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 THE L1V1NG OF... | |
 | Lilian MacDonald, Murdoch MacDonald - Alcoholics - 2005 - 194 pages
...predicament, no possible avenue of escape. Chapter Four Recovery Through Discovery 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 ABOUT two years... | |
 | Hansjörg Bay, Kai Merten - Cultural awareness - 2006 - 674 pages
...Abrams und Stephen Gill, New York/London 1979, S. 21, V. 291. Ebd., V. 292-294. 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.44 Auch De Quincey konstruiert in... | |
 | Donald G. Marshall - Philosophy - 2005 - 284 pages
...of poem. Wordsworth's assertion is made stronger by the vow that precedes it in "The Rainbow": "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." 7. See Jacques Derrida, Specters of Marx: The State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning, and the New... | |
 | Belén Santana López - Language Arts & Disciplines - 2006 - 437 pages
...Zusammenfassung und Perspektivenspektrum Ernst Jandl Oberflächenübersetzung 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 day to be bound each to each by natural piety (william wordsworth) mai hart lieb... | |
 | Children's poetry, American - 2006 - 141 pages
...and scum and things There always, always, something sings. Ralph Waldo Emerson 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 from The Man... | |
 | Diane Ravitch, Michael Ravitch - Literary Criticism - 2006 - 512 pages
...heart with pleasure fills, And dances with the daffodils. My Heart Leaps Up 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; I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. Composed Upon Westminster Bridge 1802... | |
 | Nardi Reeder Campion - Humor - 2006 - 172 pages
...my high school English teacher, who made us memorize this, among many poems: 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! (Ten points each for poet and for his two centuries.) When the poet said "man," I'm sure he was talking... | |
 | O. M. Høystad - History - 2007 - 268 pages
...belongs to the German philosopher JG Herder. Herder and the Expressivist Turn 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 Romanticism is often... | |
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