 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
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - English poetry - 1861 - 356 pages
...heart with grief, but with delight No more—O never more ! PB Shelley CCLXXXVI 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. W. Wordsworth CCLXXXVII ODE ON... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 224 pages
...too well What 'tis to be an orphan boy ! 34. 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. WoitDSWOETn. 35. LULLABY. SWKET... | |
 | Sunbeams - 1861 - 368 pages
...attendants on vegetation giving instructions in the art of shooting. ltaiituntu, 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 ! — Wordsworth. — How glorious is thy girdle cast O'er mountain, tower, and town ; Or mirrored... | |
 | Coventry Patmore - Children's poetry - 1862 - 372 pages
...see ; And in short measures life may perfect be. B. Jonson CLXXIII 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 W, Wordsworth INDEX OF WRITERS... | |
 | Andrew Reed - Charities - 1863 - 620 pages
...s 1 i i i THE LIFE OF ANDREW REED, DD CHAPTER I. EARLY LIFE. 1787. 1804. *' 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 would have my days to be, Bound each to each by natural piety." — Wordsworth. THE Reeds of... | |
 | Theology - 1867 - 396 pages
...of nearly all in our appreciation of these well-known lines:— ' My heart leaps up when I Toehold 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.' This is one of the poems referring... | |
 | Book - 1864 - 396 pages
...type grow pale with age, That first spoke peace to man. CAMPBELL. THE RAINBOW. 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. WORDSWORTH. THE RAINBOW. FRAGMENT... | |
 | James Parton - Statesmen - 1864 - 728 pages
...upon which Coleridge so fondly comments in the Friend : " My heart leaps up when I behold A Raiubow in the sky ; So was it when my life began ; So is...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." Smile, reader, if you will ;... | |
 | 1862 - 542 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...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. " In the midst of the storm of... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1864 - 770 pages
...</oor."| * [Altered from The Pet Lamb, P. "W. p. 80.— S. 0.] t PW p. 2, line 7. " 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 1 The Child is fatter of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety."... | |
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