 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
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pages
...Seventh 483 WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS. Ifloems referriuj fn ijje llmob of 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. TO A BUTTERFLY. STAY near me... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Bookbinding - 1858 - 550 pages
...S......^\.. s.'. 479 WOBDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS llo:ms rtftrring " fji: ^ptriob of 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 ! Tho child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days to bo Bound each to each by natural piety.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English literature - 1858 - 770 pages
...door."i • [Altered from The Pet Lamb, PW p. 3O.— SC] f PW p. 2, line 7. " My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky ; So was it when my...a man ; So be it when I shall grow old. Or let me dic 1 The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - American fiction - 1858 - 478 pages
...torrent. CHAPTER XVII. My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my Lie began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shall...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. FIVE minutes longer... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 554 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." M THE INDICATOR.... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 312 pages
...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;...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 o^ Wordsworth's life... | |
 | Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 336 pages
...their own in the simple exclamation bursting from a poet's lips : — " My heart leaps up when I bohold A rainbow in the sky ! So was it when my life began...be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die !" The inquiry may naturally suggest itself whether the imaginative truth which poetry aspires to is not above... | |
 | 1068 pages
...profundity of a sage, as well as the grace of a minstrel : " My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow :'n the sky ; So was it when my life began, So is it now...when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! The child is lather of the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound Bjich to each by natural piety. " In the midst... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 pages
...... ... 501 WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS $otm<J referring; to tl>e £m'oB of 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. II. TO A BUTTERFLY. STAY near... | |
 | Children in literature - 1861 - 228 pages
...with thee to lie, A more harmless vanity ? "THE CHILD IS FATHER OF THE MAN." Mr 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. DEATH OF AN INFANT. , A HOST... | |
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