"My heart leaps up." William Wordsworth (1770-1850). I. Nature's Influence. Bliss Carman, et al., eds. 1904. The World's Best Poetry. V. Nature

Bliss Carman, et al., eds. The World’s Best Poetry.
Volume V. Nature. 1904.

I. Nature’s Influence

“My heart leaps up”

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.