 | John Wilson - 1842 - 426 pages
...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 began, So is it now I am a 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 - 586 pages
...on the watery cloud :" So Wordsworth : " 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," &c. To those who imagine that the progress of knowledge may be unfavourable to enjoyment, by dispelling... | |
 | Isaac Fitzgerald Shepard - Gift books - 1843 - 332 pages
...NATURE AND GRACE. BY BEV. OEOBOE B. 0 HESVEB . Mr 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...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. WORDSWORTH. Sweet... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1843 - 278 pages
...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 life began ; So is it now I am a man...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. Complaint of a foraafcen... | |
 | Robert Chambers - Authors, English - 1844 - 738 pages
...beyond his happy mountain solitude. Lina. My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So . of the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. Lucy. She dwelt among... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...beyond his happy mountain solitude. Lines. My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So us description and metaphor. His simpler effusions of the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. Lucy. She dwelt among... | |
 | Literature - 1892 - 890 pages
...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 towards nature might be brought forward... | |
 | 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 to be Bound, each to each,... | |
 | 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,... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 544 pages
...delicious line, full of a dreary yet lulling pleasure ; — As when a shepherd of the Hebrid isles, Plafed far amid the melancholy main. In childhood, the total...Bound each to each by natural piety." CHAPTER XIX. A Talc for a Chimney Corner. A MAN who does not contribute his quota of grim story now-adays, seems hardly... | |
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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... 
