 | Henry Pitman - 1316 pages
...literature, and to deepen the main sea of the world's knowledge." 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 : I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. — WOUDSWOBIB. THE WO^DEES OF THE... | |
 | Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire - Cheshire (England) - 1856 - 360 pages
...writing. Take the very first poem in the works of the Poet-Sage of Rydal : — 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 two last words are derived... | |
 | Henry C. Leonard - Sermons, American - 1856 - 420 pages
...wonders and glories of the AllWise, the All-Good, in the outward universe. " 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 j And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety." Natufe ministers to our minds... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1856 - 538 pages
...this unhappy day Than all the pride of intellect and thought ? THE RAINBOW. 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! SONNET. WITH Ships tne sea was sprinkled far and Like stars in heaven, and joyously it showed; Some... | |
 | 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... | |
 | John Seely Hart - Readers - 1857 - 394 pages
...the very houses seem asleep; And all that mighty heart is lying still! LINES. My ncart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life...old, Or let me die! The child is father of the man; And I could wish my days to he Bound codi to each by natural piety. A PORTRAIT. She was a phantom of... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
