 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...  The New-York Review - Page 381839Full view - About this book
 | John McVickar - Anglican Communion - 1838 - 564 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... | |
 | Fashion - 740 pages
...the last. My heart leaps up when I behold The rainbow in the sky ! So was it when I was a boy ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! While true old age is that honourable and happy state of soul which intellectual and emotional activities... | |
 | Theology - 1839 - 536 pages
...the heart that leaps not up with it. and joins not in its fervent prayer. " My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky ! So was it when my...I am a man, So be it when I shall grow old, Or let roe die ! The child is father of the man, And I could wish my days, to be Bound each to each by natural... | |
 | Basil Montagu - Conduct of life - 1839 - 404 pages
...gleaming from the west Fall on the watery cloud. So, too, Wordsworth says — Jly heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my...it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, &c. Of the miseries attendant upon acting on imaginations, as if they were realities, life abounds... | |
 | Sunday school teachers - 1813 - 1404 pages
...gentle poet had, who sang in a measure which will be always sweet and new : " My heart leaps np 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... | |
 | Fashion - 1867 - 738 pages
...the last. My heart leaps np when I behold The rainbow in the sky ! So was it when I was a boy ; So is it now I am a man ; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die ! While true old age is that honourable and happy state of soul which intellectual and emotional activities... | |
 | Religion - 1839 - 542 pages
...unwillingness to loose the hold on fair things of sense, which is apt to slacken with our growing years — " So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die !" And here is a verse which has deservedly become a part of our language — " The child is father... | |
 | Edward Robinson - 1839 - 1050 pages
...unwillingness to loose the hold on fair things of sense, which is apt to slacken with our growing years — " So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die !" And here is a verse which has deservedly become a part of our language — " The child is father... | |
 | 1839 - 444 pages
...Wordsworth has condensed a volume into a few well-known but immortal lines :— " My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my lift began; So ii it now I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die I The MM u father... | |
 | 1840 - 294 pages
...two 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... | |
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