 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...  Earth and Sky - Pagina 154de Jenny H. Stickney Lansing - 1904 - 160 paginiVizualizare completă - Despre această carte
 | 1808 - 532 pagini
...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 to be Bound... | |
 | 1813 - 1368 pagini
...gentle poet had, who sang in a measure which will be always sweet and new : " 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 — ;" Then let it be remembered, that " The child is father... | |
 | William Wordsworth, Dorothy Wordsworth - 1815 - 438 pagini
...persons." POEMS REFERRING TO THE PERIOD OF CHILDHOOD. YOL. i. , I. MY heart leaps up when I behold I • A Rainbow in the sky : So was it when my life began ; ~i) .-'. So is it now I am a Man; V So be it when I shall grow old, , Or let me die ! ' The Child... | |
 | William Hazlitt - 1818 - 354 pagini
...world, like the music of one's native 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 - 1819 - 488 pagini
...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 - 1819 - 484 pagini
...<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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1820 - 432 pagini
...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 ; So be it wheu I shall grow old, Or let me die ! The child is father to the man ; And I could wish my days to... | |
 | Charles Lloyd - 1821 - 316 pagini
...Thus 'tis save when our infancy's the father* Of our experience, from youth's blissful bowers ' So was it when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I do grow old, Or let me die ! Of being's progress : — progress then, alone : Else retrograde "till... | |
 | 1821 - 522 pagini
...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 doe8 not understand... | |
 | 1821 - 746 pagini
...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... | |
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