 | 1813 - 1404 psl.
...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... | |
 | 1840 - 294 psl.
...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... | |
 | 1842 - 608 psl.
...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...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 psl.
...lives, 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 - 588 psl.
...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...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 psl.
...little 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...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 - 738 psl.
...sympathies to that world which lay beyond his happy mountain solitude. Lina. My heart leaps up when s ; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety. Lucy. She dwelt among the untrodden... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1844 - 746 psl.
...sympathies to that world which lay beyond his happy mountain solitude. Lines. My heart leaps up when physical 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... | |
 | 1892 - 890 psl.
...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 : .So was it when my life...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... | |
 | 1868 - 844 psl.
...almost see the plumes of angels ascending and descending. Wordsworth says : — " 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." The rainbow should, however,... | |
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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... 
