 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 piety.  The London Magazine - Seite 5961821Vollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | William Jerdan - 1852 - 430 Seiten
...pleasing than that simple sight/ ' My heart leaps up when I behold ' § An office rear'd on high : • So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when 1 shall grow old, Or let me die ! The child is father of the man ; And 1 could wish my days... | |
 | 1852 - 302 Seiten
...who I never thought would have done so; I go now occasionally, and I find the tree unaltered :— So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man:' the marks of age, perhaps, are more apparent, but it smiles upon me as it did of old; and in... | |
 | John Stevenson Bushnan - 1853 - 188 Seiten
...assist the imagination, we venture to add a running commentary :— " My heart leaps op when I behold So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old — The child's the father of the man." The boy thirsts intuitively after... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 566 Seiten
...of thought and tenderness of feeling : — 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 Wordsworth - 1853 - 300 Seiten
...Childhood . . 273 $• % WILLIAM WORDSWORTH 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 764 Seiten
...Lamb, PW p. 80.— SC] f PW p. 2, line 7. " 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... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1853 - 766 Seiten
...literature. MY HEART LEAPS UP WHEN I BEHOLD. 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... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 560 Seiten
...tenderness of feeling : — My heart leaps up when I beliold A rainbow in the sky ! So was it, wlien 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 Hazlitt - 1854 - 980 Seiten
...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, So is it now I am a man, So shall it be when I grow old and die. The child 'a the father of the man, And I would have my years to be Linked... | |
 | Samuel Griswold Goodrich - 1854 - 264 Seiten
...retaken whilst thou art alive." MY HEART LEAPS. 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... | |
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