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 - 1865 - 316 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. CXXI ODE: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1865 - 506 pages
...A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my Lfe 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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1865 - 318 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. CXXI ODE: INTIMATIONS OF IMMORTALITY... | |
 | Sidney Gilpin - 1866 - 594 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. LUCY GRAY. [When Mr. Wordsworth... | |
 | George H. STRUTT - 1866 - 260 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. W. Wordticortfi. CXXXIV. AN OLD... | |
 | R. C. J. - 1866 - 304 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. WORDSWORTH. "BLESSED ARE THE... | |
 | Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 752 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, n or<ttworM,o»C*sW*w' BAJNBOW... | |
 | New York (State). Constitutional Convention - 1868 - 1058 pages
...A rainbow In the sky : So wan 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." The subject of infanticide brings me to the question of FOUNDLING HOSPITALS. as one of the proper remedies... | |
 | John Baron - 1869 - 166 pages
...youth. Hence the fentiment of Wordfworth has been generally accepted and applauded. " The child is father of the man, And I could wifh my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety." But furely nations, as well as individuals, have by the ordering of Divine... | |
 | William Davis (B.A.) - 1869 - 202 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. Wordsworth. This England never... | |
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