 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...  The Microcosm: Or, Little World of Home - Sida 51835Obegränsad förhandsgranskning - Om den här boken
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...the last. My heart leaps up when I behold 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 ! While true old age is that honourable and happy state of soul which intellectual and emotional activities... | |
 | 1839 - 538 sidor
...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 sidor
...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 sidor
...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... | |
 | 1813 - 1404 sidor
...gentle poet had, who sang in a measure which will be always sweet and new : " My heart leaps np 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... | |
 | 1867 - 738 sidor
...the last. My heart leaps np when I behold 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 ! While true old age is that honourable and happy state of soul which intellectual and emotional activities... | |
 | 1839 - 542 sidor
...unwillingness to loose the hold on fair things of sense, which is apt to slacken with our growing years — " So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die !" And here is a verse which has deservedly become a part of our language — " The child is father... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1839 - 1050 sidor
...unwillingness to loose the hold on fair things of sense, which is apt to slacken with our growing years — " So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die !" And here is a verse which has deservedly become a part of our language — " The child is father... | |
 | 1839 - 444 sidor
...Wordsworth has condensed a volume into a few well-known but immortal lines :— " My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my lift began; So ii it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die I The MM u father... | |
 | 1840 - 294 sidor
...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... | |
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