 | 1840 - 294 pages
...sisters is to be celebrated on the same day. MISS MITFORD. MY HEART LEAPS. MY heart leaps up when I 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 Bound each to each by natural piety. M LINES WRITTEN IN SICKNESS. WOULD... | |
 | 1842 - 608 pages
...us not undervalue, however slight and transient, thoughts like these, — " My heart leaps up when I 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 Bound each to each by natural piety" 4B Though lectures to the lower... | |
 | John Wilson - 1842 - 426 pages
...and in consequence breaks out into the following short but pithy poem : " My heart leaps up, when I 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 ! VOL. i. 23 The child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by... | |
 | Alonzo Potter, George Barrell Emerson - 1842 - 586 pages
...sunbeams, gleaming from the west, Fall on the watery cloud :" So Wordsworth : " My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my life...it now I am a man, So be it when I shall grow old," &c. To those who imagine that the progress of knowledge may be unfavourable to enjoyment, by dispelling... | |
 | William [poetical works Wordsworth (selections]) - 1843 - 278 pages
...maid would have her will, And said, " Nay, we are seven ! " SEl)r lUmboaj. MY heart leaps up when I 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 Bound each to each by natural piety. Complaint of a foraafcen Jntian... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 pages
...sympathies to that world which lay beyond his happy mountain solitude. Lines. My heart leaps up when I ysical 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... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 738 pages
...sympathies to that world which lay beyond his happy mountain solitude. Lina. My heart leaps up when I ; butp^+. ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. Lucy. She dwelt among the untrodden... | |
 | 1892 - 890 pages
...divine, however common 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...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... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1845 - 660 pages
...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...days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. 1804. TO A BUTTERFLY. STAY near me — do not take thy flight ! A little longer stay in sight ! Much converse... | |
 | James Fenimore Cooper - 1845 - 926 pages
...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 life...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... | |
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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... 
