 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...  A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets - Seite 494von Henry George Bohn - 1867 - 715 SeitenVollansicht - Über dieses Buch
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 Seiten
...sympathies to that world which lay beyond his happy mountain solitude. Lines. My heart leaps up when physical truth with diffuse gorgeous description and metaphor. His simpler effusions ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. Lucy. She dwelt among the untrodden... | |
 | 1892 - 890 Seiten
...the spectacle of it ; when a thing of beauty ceases to be a " joy forever." My heart leaps up when 1 behold A rainbow in the sky : .So was it when my life...man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! Other illustrations of this change in the general attitude towards nature might be brought forward... | |
 | 1868 - 844 Seiten
...almost see the plumes of angels ascending and descending. Wordsworth says : — " 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." The rainbow should, however,... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1845 - 926 Seiten
...through the dam above, and was coming down upon us in a torrent. CHAPTER VII. 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. WORDSWORTH. FIVE minutes longer... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 688 Seiten
...Mercy gives me leave to die. 1795-6. POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF CHILDHOOD. 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. П. TO A BUTTERFLY. STAY near... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 Seiten
...die. 1795-6. POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF CHILDHOOD. Mr heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow ul the sky : So was it when my life began ; So is it...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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 520 Seiten
...they peopled the place with robbers and serpents, we were peopling it with sylvans and fairies. " So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man...shall grow old ; Or let me die ! The child is father to the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety." CHAPTER XIX. A Tale... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 540 Seiten
...they peopled the place with robbers and serpents, we were peopling it with sylvans and fairies. " So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man...shall grow old ; Or let me die ! The child is father to the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety." CHAPTER XIX. A Tale... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 544 Seiten
...they peopled the place with robbers and serpents, we were peopling it with sylvans and fairies. " So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man...shall grow old ; Or let me die ! The child is father to the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety." CHAPTER XIX. A Talc... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - 1847 - 524 Seiten
...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... | |
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