My Heart Leaps Up
William Wordsworth * Track #8 On Poems, in Two Volumes
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Album Poems, in Two Volumes
- #1I Wandered Lonely As a Cloud
William Wordsworth & Dorothy Wordsworth
- #2The Solitary Reaper
William Wordsworth
- #3Ode to Duty
William Wordsworth
- #4“The world is too much with us...”
William Wordsworth
- #5Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
William Wordsworth
- #6Elegiac Stanzas Suggested by a Picture of Peele Castle in a Storm, Painted by Sir George Beaumont
William Wordsworth
- #7Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood (Immortality Ode)
William Wordsworth
- #8My Heart Leaps Up
William Wordsworth
- #9Resolution and Independence
William Wordsworth & Dorothy Wordsworth
- #10London, 1802
William Wordsworth
- #11I Travelled Among Unknown Men
William Wordsworth
- #12Thought of a Briton on the Subjugation of Switzerland
William Wordsworth
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In these final lines, Wordsworth seems to be expressing his affirmation of the beauty of the natural world as something deserving the piety, or religious devotion/spirituality, of mankind from birth to death, connecting one’s otherwise random life, to some degree.
My Heart Leaps Up Annotated
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 to each by natural piety.