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 - Page 51835Full view - About this book
| James Fenimore Cooper - 1845 - 482 pages
...way through the dam above, and was .coming down upon us in a torrent. 2» CHAPTER II. A rainbow i» the sky: So was it when my life began; So is it now I am a man; So be it when I shalt grow old, Or let me die! My heart leaps up when I behold The child is father of the man; And... | |
| William Hazlitt - 1845 - 512 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, Hni.ii now I am a man, So shall it be when I grow old and die. The child 's the father of the man,... | |
| William Linwood - 1846 - 342 pages
...bubbling groan, Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown. Byron. XXXIV. 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. The child is father of the man, And I would wish my days... | |
| William Linwood - 1846 - 372 pages
...Without a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown. Byron. XXXIV. Hatnboto. 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. The child is father of the man, And I would wish my days... | |
| William Linwood - 1846 - 342 pages
...a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown. XXXIV. «Katnbofo. MY heart leaps up when I behold Л 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. The child is father of the man, And I would wish my days... | |
| William Linwood - 1846 - 340 pages
...a grave, unknelled, uncoffined, and unknown. Byron. XXXIV. Щ« Iftatnboto. MY heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky ! So was it, when my life began; So is it полу I am a man ; So let it be, when I grow old, Or let me die. The child is father of the man,... | |
| Mark Hopkins - 1847 - 524 pages
...of nature, and the instructor may adopt in spirit the words of the poet — " 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." It is such an one alone who... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 462 pages
...which up the hill Comes from the depth of Dungeon-Ghyll." 2 PW p. 2, line 7. " 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." SC] 3 [Ib. I. p. 16. SC] 4[Ib.... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1847 - 380 pages
...SHEPHERD-BOYS ?' 1 [Altered from The Pet Lamb, PW, p. 30. SC] sP. W.,p. 2, line 7. " My heart leaps up when 1 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 " Along the river's stony marge The sand-lark chants a joyous song... | |
| George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - 1847 - 374 pages
...Comas, 956 • who, for thee ordained A help, became thy snare • PL, xi. 165. My heart leaps up when I behold • A rainbow in the sky— : So was it when...man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! WORDSWORTH. * On the Period of Childhood.' when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand... | |
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