 | William Wordsworth - English poetry - 1807 - 358 pages
...wise and innocent. 52 THE SPARROW'S NEST. Look, five blue eggs are gleaming there ! Few visions have I seen more fair, Nor many prospects of delight More pleasing than that simple sight! I started seeming to espy The home and shelter'd bed, The Sparrow's dwelling, which, hard by My Father's... | |
 | William Wordsworth - 1807 - 258 pages
...wise and innocent. 9. THE SPARROW'S NEST. Look, five blue eggs are gleaming there ! Few visions have I seen more fair, Nor many prospects of delight More pleasing than that simple sight ! I started seeming to espy The home and shelter'd bed, The Sparrow's dwelling, which, hard by My Father's... | |
 | Sunday school teachers - 1813 - 1368 pages
...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 Hazlitt - English poetry - 1818 - 354 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1819 - 488 pages
...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 - Great Britain - 1819 - 484 pages
...<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 pages
...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... | |
 | 1821 - 522 pages
...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 pages
...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... | |
 | John Evans - Life - 1834 - 306 pages
...native tongue heard in some far off country : 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 shall it be when I grow OLD and die ! The child's the father of THE MAN. And I would have my years... | |
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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 let it be, when I grow old, Or let me die. The child is father of the man, And I would wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural... 
