 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
 | Henry Pitman - 1316 pages
...literature, and to deepen the main sea of the world's knowledge." 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 : I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. — WOUDSWOBIB. THE WO^DEES OF THE... | |
 | Henry C. Leonard - Sermons, American - 1856 - 420 pages
...wonders and glories of the AllWise, the All-Good, in the outward universe. " 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 j And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety." Natufe ministers to our minds... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1856 - 538 pages
...this unhappy day Than all the pride of intellect and thought ? THE RAINBOW. 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! SONNET. WITH Ships tne sea was sprinkled far and Like stars in heaven, and joyously it showed; Some... | |
 | Henry Reed - Great Britain - 1856 - 484 pages
...when a poet exclaimed — " My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when nay life began, So is it now I am a man, So be it when...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's works, p. 27.... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - Antirent War, N.Y., 1839-1846 - 1856 - 324 pages
...XVII. *' My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow m the sky : So was it when my life began ; So ie 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." — WOHDSWOBTH. PIVE minutes... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1857 - 480 pages
...Early Childhood 426 THE EARLIER POEMS or WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. MY HEART LEAPS UP. 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.' 1804. TO A BUTTERFLY. STAY near... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 336 pages
...which even the feeblest sense of the beauty of nature is touched with : — " 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 days of Wordsworth's life... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still! LINES. My ncart 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 he Bound codi to each by natural piety. A PORTRAIT. She was a phantom of... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...which even the feeblest sense of the beauty of nature is touched with: — " 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 wheu I shall grow old, Or let me die ! The child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days to... | |
 | 1858 - 740 pages
...painful. It was liver-complaint, and Dowi"" assumed the form of jaundice. Hie "My heart leaps up, when I behold A rainbow in the sky. So was it when my life...Or let me die ! The child is father of the man,— And 1 could wish my years to be Bound each to each by natural piety." Even the railway traveller, now-adays,... | |
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