My heart leaps up when I behold

           My Heart Leaps Up When I Behold

                                                 -William Wordsworth

Willam Wordsworth (1770 1850), English poet and worshipper of nature and simplicity, was born in the Lake District. He spent some time in France, where he became an enthusiastic republican until disillusioned by the Terro which followed the French Revolution. In Somerset, with Coleridge, he composed the Lyrical Ballads (1798), which attacked conventional poetry of the 18th century and which started the Romantic Movement in English. Then he setrled with his sister Dorothy in Grasmere in 1799. In 1802 he married Mary Hurchinson and they started living a life of
"plain living and high tinking," and he composed the poems that made him (after initial hostility) revered as the greatest poet of his time. These poems include "Immortality Ode" (1807), many fine sonnets, and pastoral poems such as Michael" (1800), Radical in his youth, he became
conservative with age. In 1843, he was made poet laureate.His autobiographical poem, The Prelude, was posthumously published in 1850

Wordsworth says: "Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powertul feelings it takes its origin from emotions recollected in tranquillity" In this poem "My heart Leaps Up he recollects an experience of his childhood days and gives his emotion and feelings a meaning.

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;

And I could wish my days to be

  Bound each to each by natural piety.