 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 258 pages
...ending; Of serious faith, and inward glee; That was the Song, the Song for me ! 4. 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 338 pages
...world, like the music of one's native tongue heard in some far-off country. " 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 shall it be when I grow old and die. The child's the father of the man, And I would have my... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 358 pages
...world, like the music of one's native tongue heard in some far-off country. " My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my life began, So is it now 1 am a man, So shall it be when I grow old and die. The child's the father of tlie man, And I would... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1820 - 378 pages
...Pastoral Poem - - 1800 POEMS REFEERING TO CHILDHOOD AND EARLY YOUTH. VOL. I. 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 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 ; So be it when 1 shall grow old, Or let me die ! The child is father to the man ; And I could... | |
 | 1821 - 522 pages
...bright in the sun ; the rainbow still lifts its head above the storm to the eye of infancy or age— So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man, So shall it be till I grow old and die ; but Lord Byron does not understand this, for he does... | |
 | 1821 - 526 pages
...bright in the sun ; the rainbow still lifts its head above the storm to the eye of infancy or ageSo was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man, So shall it be till I grow old and die ; Hymns its good God. and carols sweet of love. There is... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1827 - 418 pages
...line 2. for " bless" r. hail. POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF CHILDHOOD. I. 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... | |
 | Jeremy Taylor (bp. of Down and Connor.) - 1829 - 464 pages
...his poem on the Imagination, saya— Nor ever yet So, too, Wordsworth says— 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. Of the miseries attendant upon acting on imaginations, as... | |
 | 1829 - 276 pages
...to blast—thy love to blessI ask no more,—I brook no less! A RETROSPECT. 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 mo die! The child is father of the man; And I could wish... | |
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MY HEART LEAPS UP (1807) 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; 5 So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; 
