 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...  The Every Day Book for Youth - Page 277by Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1834 - 415 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Methodist Church - 1840 - 508 pages
...of his pieces as an illustration : — ' My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the skv : So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it wht-n I shall grow old, Or let me die ! The child is father of the man : And I could wish my days to... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1841 - 378 pages
...we were peopling it with sylvans and fuiries. " So was it when my life began ; flo is it now I :mi a man ; So be it when I 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." XIX.—A TALE FOR... | |
 | English literature - 1842 - 608 pages
...us not undervalue, however slight and transient, thoughts like these, — " 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" 4B Though lectures to the lower... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 426 pages
...lives, and in consequence breaks out into the following short but pithy poem : " My heart leaps 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 ! VOL. i. 23 The child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by... | |
 | Alonzo Potter, George Barrell Emerson - Education - 1842 - 588 pages
...sunbeams, gleaming from the west, Fall on the watery cloud :" So Wordsworth : " 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," &c. To those who imagine that the progress of knowledge may be unfavourable to enjoyment, by dispelling... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 414 pages
...into the following short but pithy poem: " My heart leaps up, when I behold Or let me die! VOL. I. 23 A rainbow in the sky, So was it when my life began, So is it now I arn a man, So be it when I shall grow old, The child is father of the man; And I could wish my days... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1843 - 278 pages
...little maid would have her will, And said, " Nay, we are seven ! " SEl)r lUmboaj. 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. Complaint of a foraafcen Jntian... | |
 | 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 ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. Lucy. She dwelt among the untrodden... | |
 | 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 ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. Lucy. She dwelt among the untrodden... | |
 | 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...man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! Other illustrations of this change in the general attitude towards nature might be brought forward... | |
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