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 Edinburgh Review: Or Critical Journal - Page 2141808Full view - About this book
 | William Wordsworth - 1857 - 480 pages
...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 piety.' 1804. TO A BUTTERFLY. STAY near... | |
 | John Seely Hart - 1857 - 424 pages
...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 he Bound codi to each by natural piety. A PORTRAIT. She was a phantom of... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1858 - 478 pages
...behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my Lie 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 piety. WORDSWORTH. FIVE minutes longer... | |
 | 1858 - 420 pages
...rainbow In the »ky ! 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 to be, Bound each to each, by natural piety." The poets feigned the rainbow... | |
 | 1858 - 740 pages
...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 1 could wish my years to be Bound each to each by natural piety." Even the railway traveller, now-adays,... | |
 | WILLIAM WORDSWOTH - 1858 - 564 pages
...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 piety. TO A BUTTERFLY. STAY near me... | |
 | 1858 - 448 pages
...rainbow in the .»ky : So was it when my life hegan ; So is it now 1 am a Man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! THE CHILD is FATHER OF THE Млн ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety." The eye, however, is... | |
 | Henry Reed - 1860 - 312 pages
...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 piety." The days o^ Wordsworth's life... | |
 | George Washington Doane (bp. of New Jersey.) - 1861 - 652 pages
...rain-bow, 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 to be Bound, each to each, by natural piety." And the poet of the Christian... | |
 | 1861 - 236 pages
...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 piety. DEATH OF AN INFANT. 183 DEATH... | |
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