 | 1808 - 532 pages
...42. This is the whole of another — ' My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the iky : „ So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when 1 (hall grow old, Or let me die ! The child is father of the man ; And I could wifh my days... | |
 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...glee; That was the Song, the Song for me ! 43 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 ray-days... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 258 pages
...glee ; That was the Song, the Song for me ! 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... | |
 | 1809 - 402 pages
...wonderful sympathy and affection. My heart leaps up when I 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 ! Then comes the reason which produces all this, in which... | |
 | Joseph Tinker Buckingham - United States - 1809 - 428 pages
...wonderful sympathy and affection. My heart leaps up when I 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 ! Then comes the reason which produces all tliis, in which... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Ethics - 1812 - 466 pages
...Annihilated as to the Past, they are dead to the Future, or seek for the proofs of it every where, only not (where alone they can be found) in themselves. A contemporary poet has exprest and illustiated this sentiment with equal fineness of thought and tenderness of feeling: .... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1815 - 442 pages
...REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF CHILDHOOD. VOL. I. 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... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 354 pages
...tongue heard in some far-off country. . " My heart leaps up when 1 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 tlie. The child's the father of the man, And I would have my years... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1819 - 488 pages
...fugitive." WAT TYLER; A DRAMATIC POEW(. THE QUARTERLY REVIEW: Article, " ON PARLIAMENTARY REFORM." " 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's the father of the man: Our years flow on Link'd each... | |
 | William Hazlitt - Great Britain - 1819 - 484 pages
...<r<5*>-» WAT TYLER; A DRAMATIC POEM. THE QUARTERLY REVIEW: Article, " ON PARLIAMENTARY REFORM." " So was it when my life began, So is it now I am a man : 80 shall it be when I grow old and die. The child's the father of the man: Our years flow on... | |
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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. 
