William Wordsworth (1770-1850). 'My Heart Leaps up'. William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. 1909. The Book of Georgian Verse

William Stanley Braithwaite, ed. The Book of Georgian Verse. 1909.

‘My Heart Leaps up’

By William Wordsworth (1770–1850)


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,	5
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.