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" 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 494
by Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 715 pages
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Cyclopędia of English literature, Volume 2

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...
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Littell's Living Age, Volume 195

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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The Methodist new connexion magazine and evangelical repository, Volume 71

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...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 rainbow should, however,...
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Satanstoe; or, The family of Littlepage

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...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...
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The Poems of William Wordsworth ...

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...old, Or let me die ! The Child is father of the Man ; And I could wish my days to bo Bound each to each by natural piety. П. TO A BUTTERFLY. STAY near...
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The Poems of William Wordsworth, D.C.L., Poet Laureate, Etc. Etc

William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...die. 1795-6. POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF CHILDHOOD. Mr heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow ul the sky : So was it when my life began ; So is it...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...
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The Indicatior: a Miscellany for the Fields and the Fireside, Volumes 1-2

Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 520 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." CHAPTER XIX. A Tale...
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The Indicatior: a Miscellany for the Fields and the Fireside, Volumes 1-2

Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 540 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." CHAPTER XIX. A Tale...
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The Indicator: a Miscellany for the Fields and the Fireside. In ..., Volumes 1-2

Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 544 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." CHAPTER XIX. A Talc...
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Miscellaneous Essays and Discourses, Volume 795

Mark Hopkins - Congregational churches - 1847 - 524 pages
...of nature, and the instructor may adopt in spirit the words of the poet — " 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." It is such an one alone who...
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