 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...  Annual Report of the Commissioners ... - Page 811898Full view - About this book
 | George Frederick Graham, Henry Reed - English language - 1847 - 374 pages
...Comas, 956 • who, for thee ordained A help, became thy snare • PL, xi. 165. My heart leaps up when I behold • A rainbow in the sky— : So was it when...man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! WORDSWORTH. * On the Period of Childhood.' when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, in his hand... | |
 | Education - 1847 - 508 pages
...language of the poet is that of the unsophisticated heart all the world over. ' 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... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - Congregational churches - 1847 - 528 pages
...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 life began ; So is it now I am a Man ; 80 be it when 1 shall grow old, Or let me die ! The Child is Father of the Man ; And 1 could... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - Congregational churches - 1847 - 528 pages
...nature, and the instructor may adopt in spirit the words of the poet— 239 " My heart leaps up when I behold A Rainbow in the sky : So was it when my life began ; So is it now I ani a Man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! The Child is Father of the Man ; And I... | |
 | Mark Hopkins - Congregational churches - 1847 - 532 pages
...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 life began ; So is it now 1 atn a Man ; So be it when 1 shall grow old, Or let me die ! The Child is Father of the Man ; And... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Criticism - 1848 - 378 pages
...SHEPHERD-BOYS ?4 ' [Altered from The Pet Lamb, PW, p. 30. SC] » PW, p. 2, line 7. " My heart leaps up when 1 behold A rainbow in the sky ; So was it when my life...old, Or let me die ! The Child is father of the Man ; And I could wish my days to be " Along the river.s stony marge The sand-lark chants a joyous song... | |
 | George Frederick Graham - English language - 1849 - 380 pages
...165 My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky — : So wa< it when my life began ; So la it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! WORDSWORTH. ' On (he Period of diOdkood.' when a damp Fell round the path of Milton, to his hand... | |
 | William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1849 - 290 pages
...bright in the sun ; the rainbow still lifts its head above the storm to the eye of infancy or age — So was it when my life began : So is it now I am a man, So shall it be till I grow old and die ; but Lord Byron does not understand this, for he does not understand... | |
 | Liberalism (Religion) - 1850 - 608 pages
...simplicity, which betokens a spirit that knew nothing of age, he exclaims : — " 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." This childlike temper kept him always in sympathy with the... | |
 | Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1850 - 304 pages
...thought and tendernefs of feeling : — My heart leaps up when I behold A rain-bow in the Iky ! 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 wifh my days... | |
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