| 1808 - 532 pages
...42. This is the whole of another — ' My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the iky : „ So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when 1 (hall grow old, Or let me die ! The child is father of the man ; And I could wifh my days to be Bound... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1807 - 358 pages
...glee; That was the Song, the Song for me ! 43 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 ray-days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. 44 WRITTEN IN MARCH,... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1807 - 258 pages
...glee ; That was the Song, the Song for me ! 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. 6. WRITTEN IN MARCH,... | |
| 1809 - 402 pages
...wonderful sympathy and affection. My heart leaps up when I 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 ! Then comes the reason which produces all this, in which the metaphor very beautifully reverses the... | |
| Joseph Tinker Buckingham - 1809 - 428 pages
...wonderful sympathy and affection. My heart leaps up when I 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 ! Then comes the reason which produces all tliis, in which the metaphor very beautifully reverses the... | |
| 1813 - 1368 pages
...measure which will be always sweet and new : " 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 let it be when I grow old, Or let me die — ;" Then let it be remembered, that " The child is father... | |
| New Church gen. confer - 1855 - 590 pages
...be denied. My heart leaps up when I hehold The rainbow in the sky ! So was it when I was a boy ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! SUMMARY OF THE SPIRITUAL SENSE OF THE BOOKS OF GENESIS AND EXODUS, AS DERIVED FROM THE ARCANA CCELESTIA.... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 pages
...REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF CHILDHOOD. 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...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. B 2 -X II. TO A BUTTERFLY.... | |
| William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 pages
...behold I • A Rainbow in the sky : So was it when my life began ; ~i) .-'. So is it now I am a Man; V So be it when I shall grow old, , Or let me die ! ' The Child is Father of the Man; V/NA S^*s** — ** " " ~"''"^ -• And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 pages
...tongue heard in some far-off country. . " 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 shall it be when I grow old and tlie. The child's the father of the man, And I would have my years... | |
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