| 1857 - 336 pages
...which 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...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 of Wordsworth's life... | |
| William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1857 - 480 pages
...Early Childhood 426 THE EARLIER POEMS or WILLIAM WORDSWORTH. MY HEART LEAPS UP. 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.' 1804. TO A BUTTERFLY. STAY near... | |
| Henry Reed - English poetry - 1857 - 424 pages
...feeling of their own in the simple exclamation bursting from a poet's lips : — " My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky ! So was it when my...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... | |
| 1858 - 740 pages
...painful. It was liver-complaint, and Dowi"" assumed the form of jaundice. Hie "My heart leaps up, when I behold A rainbow in the sky. So was it when my life...Or let me die ! The child is father of the man,— And 1 could wish my years to be Bound each to each by natural piety." Even the railway traveller, now-adays,... | |
| 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... | |
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