 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
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 760 pages
...human door."\ * [Altered from The Pet Lamb, PW p. 30.—SC] f PW p. 2, line 7. ' My heart leape 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 t The Child ia lather of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety."—S.... | |
 | Cyclopaedia - 1853 - 772 pages
...Campbell. My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So ia 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. 528 EAISE. RANDOM.... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - Children's poetry - 1854 - 264 pages
...fellow ; Silesia will never be retaken whilst thou art alive." MY HEART LEAPS. 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. ENVY. EKTY is one of the meanest... | |
 | Angus MACPHERSON - English language - 1854 - 46 pages
...feeling to which the poet gives utterance when he beholds the rainbow,— " 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." Habit is all-powerful; and habit... | |
 | Conduct of life - 1854 - 402 pages
...character, again say I! a mausoleum should be erected to your memory ! A SIMILIE. MY heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my...shall grow old , Or let me die ? The child is father to the man ; And I oonld wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. MONTHLY BOOK TABLE.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1854 - 766 pages
...door."\ * [Altered from The Pet Lamb, PW p. 30.— SC] f PW p. 2, line 7. " My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky ; So was it when my...it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, ' i Or let me die ! The Child is father of the Man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each... | |
 | Cheshire (England) - 1855 - 712 pages
...writing. Take the very first poem in the works of the Poet-Sage of Rydal : — 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. The two last words are derived... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - American literature - 1855 - 482 pages
...water had forced its way through the dam above and was coming down upon us in a torrent. CHAPTER XVII. 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! My heart leaps up when I behold The child is father of the man; And I could wish my days to be Bound... | |
 | 1855 - 692 pages
...which may each one of us live and labor: " My heart leaps np when I behold A rainbow in the sky ; 80 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 I The child la father of the man : And I could wish my days to be Hound each to each by natural piety.1'... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - Cheshire (England) - 1856 - 360 pages
...writing. Take the very first poem in the works of the Poet-Sage of Rydal : — 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. The two last words are derived... | |
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