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The childhood of today is the manhood of tomorrow

The childhood of today is the manhood of tomorrow

William Wordsworth
Children, Childhood, Today

Wisdom sits with children round her knees.

William Wordsworth
Wisdom, Children, Knees

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, Or let me die! The Child is father of the Man; I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.

William Wordsworth
Beauty, Children, Father
"My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold" l. 1 (1807). Wordsworth also used the last three lines as the epigraph for his poem "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" (1807). See Milton 43

I have seen A curious child, who dwelt upon a tract Of inland ground, applying to his ear The convolutions of a smooth-lipped shell; To which, in silence hushed, his very soul listened intensely; for from within were heard Murmurings whereby the monitor expressed Mysterious union with its native sea. Even such a shell the universe itself Is to the ear of faith; and there are times, I doubt not, when to you it doth impart Authentic tidings of invisible things, Of ebb and flow, and ever enduring power, And central peace, subsisting at the heart Of endless Agitation.

William Wordsworth
Children, Heart, Sea
"The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: The Excursion".

The child shall become father to the man.

William Wordsworth
Children, Father, Men

Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children.

William Wordsworth
Hope, Children, Airy
'The Excursion' (1814) bk. 3, l. 735

The child is father of the man: And I could wish my days to be Bound each to each by natural piety.

William Wordsworth
Children, Father, Men
"My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold" l. 1 (1807). Wordsworth also used the last three lines as the epigraph for his poem "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" (1807). See Milton 43

The child is the father of man.

William Wordsworth
Children, Father, Men

Hope smiled when your nativity was cast, Children of Summer!

William Wordsworth
Summer, Children, Casts
William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.264

Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a mother's mind, And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster child, her inmate man, Forget the glories he hath known And that imperial palace whence he came.

William Wordsworth
Mother, Children, Men
William Wordsworth (1837). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England, Now First Published with His Works ...”, p.388

A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?

William Wordsworth
Life, Death, Children
'We are Seven' (1798) (the words 'dear brother Jim' were omitted in the 1815 edition of his poems)

The child is father of the man.

William Wordsworth
Children, Father, Men
"My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold" l. 1 (1807). Wordsworth also used the last three lines as the epigraph for his poem "Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" (1807). See Milton 43

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