 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 - Seite 494von Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 715 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Edward Robinson - 1839 - 1050 Seiten
...the heart that leaps not up with it. and joins not in its fervent prayer. " 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." 1839.] Modern English Poetry.... | |
 | 1839 - 538 Seiten
...evolved in the lines with which the poet meets his reader on his first page : " 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." It is one of the sorrows of... | |
 | 1839 - 536 Seiten
...the heart that leaps not up with it. and joins not in its fervent prayer. " My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky ! So was it when my...I am a man, So be it when I shall grow old, Or let roe die ! The child is father of the man, And I could wish my days, to be Bound each to each by natural... | |
 | Basil Montagu - 1839 - 404 Seiten
...gleaming from the west Fall on the watery cloud. So, too, Wordsworth says — Jly heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my...it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, &c. Of the miseries attendant upon acting on imaginations, as if they were realities, life abounds... | |
 | 1840 - 294 Seiten
...two sisters is to be celebrated on the same day. MISS MITFORD. MY HEART LEAPS. MY heart 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 be Bound each to each by natural piety. M LINES WRITTEN IN SICKNESS. WOULD... | |
 | 1842 - 608 Seiten
...us not undervalue, however slight and transient, thoughts like these, — " 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" 4B Though lectures to the lower... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 426 Seiten
...lives, and in consequence breaks out 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...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 - 1842 - 588 Seiten
...sunbeams, gleaming from the west, Fall on the watery cloud :" So Wordsworth : " My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my...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... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1843 - 278 Seiten
...little maid would have her will, And 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...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 Jntian... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 Seiten
...sympathies to that world which lay beyond his happy mountain solitude. Lina. My heart leaps up when s ; 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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