| Henry Reed - English poetry - 1860 - 336 pages
...their own in the simple exclamation bursting from a poet's lips : — " My heart leaps up when I bohold A rainbow in the sky ! So was it when my life began...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 above... | |
| 1068 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...when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! The child is lather of the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound Bjich to each by natural piety. " In the midst... | |
| 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... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1861 - 662 pages
...... ... 501 WORDSWORTH'S POETICAL WORKS $otm<J referring; to tl>e £m'oB 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. II. TO A BUTTERFLY. STAY near... | |
| Children in literature - 1861 - 228 pages
...with thee to lie, A more harmless vanity ? "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. DEATH OF AN INFANT. , A HOST... | |
| 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... | |
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