| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1868 - 590 pages
...of thought and tenderness of feeling : — My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky I 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 \nsh my days... | |
| New York (State). Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1868 - 1058 pages
...mist before the breath of day. •• My heart leaps np when I behold A rainbow In the sky : So wan 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." The subject of infanticide... | |
| James Cornwell - 1870 - 152 pages
...He shall be nearest, He shall be dearest, He shall be first in our hearts evermore. CHARLES MACK AY. THE RAINBOW. MY heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow...when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So shall it be when I grow old, Or let me die ! The child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days... | |
| James Cornwell - 1870 - 156 pages
...He shall be nearest, He shall be dearest, He shall be first in our hearts evermore. CHARLES MACKAY. THE RAINBOW. MY heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow...when my life began ; So is it now I am a man ; So shall it be when I grow old, Or let me die ! The child is father of the man ; And I could wish my days... | |
| Edward Isidore Sears - 1870 - 442 pages
...Wordsworth, a genuine lover of nature, and a true poet: • An 1-ot.t.. 1. 27 1. " 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 bo it when I shall grow old, Or let me die!" We will quote one or two passages which Mr. Lowell intends... | |
| Carol Sklenicka - Literary Criticism - 1991 - 214 pages
...Sons and Lovers TR The Trespasser WL Women in Love DH LAWRENCE AND THE CHILD My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life...I am a man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let medic! The Child is father of the Man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural... | |
| Bert O. States - History - 1993 - 242 pages
...(p. 96), a statement that has much in common, genetically, with Wordsworth's 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; An epic dream would accommodate what Goethe called "circumscribed activity" (as opposed to dramatic... | |
| Catherine Panter-Brick - Psychology - 1998 - 176 pages
...of offspring to adulthood than any other species. Intimations of immortality 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 grow old, Or let me die! The child is father of the man; And I could wish my days to be Bound each... | |
| Thomas Rossing, Christopher J Chiaverina - Science - 1999 - 496 pages
...the physical nature of light and the nature of visual perception. 1.1 RAINBOWS My heart leaps up when I behold A rainbow in the sky So was it when my life began So is it when I am a man So be it when I grow old, or let me die! — William Wordsworth This poem by Wordsworth... | |
| David Bell - Psychology - 1999 - 248 pages
...and adult life, with Rilke's reflection on a similar theme. First Wordsworth: My heart leaps up when I behold A Rainbow in the sky: So was it when my life began; So be it now I am a Man; So be it when I shall grow old, Or let me die! The Child is Father of the... | |
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