 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 piety.  The English Journal of Education - Page 1351847Full view - About this book
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...sympathies to that world which lay beyond his happy mountain solitude. Lina. My heart leaps up when s be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! The child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...sympathies to that world which lay beyond his happy mountain solitude. Lines. My heart leaps up when physical truth with diffuse gorgeous description and metaphor. His simpler effusions be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! The child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days... | |
 | Literature - 1892 - 890 pages
...the spectacle of it ; when a thing of beauty ceases to be a " joy forever." My heart leaps up when 1 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 ! Other illustrations of this change in the general attitude... | |
 | My school-boy days - 1844 - 190 pages
... Ilk ••Jff -V -v. 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. WORDSWORTH. LONDON: THE RELIGIOUS TRACT SOCIETY; Instituted 1799. SOLD AT THE DEPOSITORY, 56,... | |
 | Sharon Turner - Creation - 1844 - 452 pages
...man 1" Ibid. v. 5. p. 214. " My heart leaped up when I beheld A rainbow in the sky, So was it, ti'hin my life began ; So is it now I am a man : So be it when I shall grow old, So, let me die. The child is father of tke man. And I could wish my days... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1845 - 926 pages
...through the dam above, and was coming down upon us in a torrent. CHAPTER VII. 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - Authors' presentation copies - 1845 - 688 pages
...Mercy gives me leave to die. 1795-6. POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF CHILDHOOD. 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English literature - 1845 - 510 pages
...world, like the music of one's native tongue heard in some far-off country. " 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 shall it be when I grow old and die. The child 's the father of the man, And I would have my years... | |
 | 1868 - 844 pages
...almost see the plumes of angels ascending and descending. Wordsworth says : — " 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... | |
 | Thomas Arnold - History - 1845 - 466 pages
...is broken, and the deep truth conveyed in those beautiful lines of Mr. Wordsworth, — " The child is father of the man, And I would wish my days to be, Bound each to each by natural piety," a truth almost more important to be observed by nations than by individuals, is unhappily neglected.... | |
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