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... Bartlett's Poems for Occasions - Página 138por Geoffrey O'Brien, Billy Collins - 2007 - 544 páginasVista previa limitada - Acerca de este libro
| John McVickar - 1836 - 528 páginas
...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... | |
| 1839 - 536 páginas
...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...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." Here is a high-born poet's soul... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Nelson Coleridge - 1837 - 316 páginas
...this sentiment with equal fineness of thought and tenderness of feeling : — My heart leaps up when I behold A rain-bow 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... | |
| Sharon Turner - 1838 - 448 páginas
...reason to lament What man has made of man !" Ibid. v. 5. p. 114. i t " My bean leaped up when I beheld A rainbow in the sky, So was it, when my life began...it now I am a man : So be it when I shall grow old, So, let me die. The child is father of the man. And I could wish my days to be Bound, each to each,... | |
| John McVickar - 1838 - 564 páginas
...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... | |
| 1839 - 542 páginas
...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...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." Here is a high-born poet's soul... | |
| 1839 - 538 páginas
...evolved in the lines with which the poet meets his reader on his first page : " My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky : So was it when my...old, Or let me die ! The Child is father of the Man ; And I could wish my days to bo Bound each to each by natural piety." It is one of the sorrows of... | |
| Edward Robinson - 1839 - 1050 páginas
...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...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." 1839.] Modern English Poetry.... | |
| 1839 - 536 páginas
...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 - 1839 - 404 páginas
...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... | |
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