Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of... The Pioneer: Or, Leaves from an Editor's Portfolio - Էջ 33Henry Clapp - 1846 - 208 էջԱմբողջությամբ դիտվող - Այս գրքի մասին
| Choice descriptive poetry - 1852 - 112 էջ
...rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm. ROBERT BURNS. LIFE IN EARNEST. TELL me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not as they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; " Dust thou art, to... | |
| John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1852 - 610 էջ
...ridicule, by Wordsworth. " Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! 1852.] [Oct., ber, it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the iз earnest ! And (lie grave is not its goal ! Dust thou art, to dust veturnest, Was not spoken of... | |
| A. R. Phippen - 1852 - 696 էջ
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| 1852 - 196 էջ
...hand upon thy mane — as I do here. Jl ^anlra of life. BY H. LONGFELLOW. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are riot what they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; " Dust thou art,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 256 էջ
...Night. A PSALM OF LIFE. WHAT THE HKAKT OF THK YOUNC MAN SAID TO THK PSALMIST. TELL me not in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream ! " For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things arc not what they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; " Dust thou... | |
| George Gilfillan - 1852 - 346 էջ
...accompaniment :— "Life is real, Life is earnest, And the grave is not its goal: ' Dost thou art, to dust returnest,' Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment and not sorrow, Is our being's destined way; But to act that each to-morrow. Finds us farther than to-day. In the world's... | |
| Samuel Greatheed, Daniel Parken, Theophilus Williams, Josiah Conder, Thomas Price, Jonathan Edwards Ryland, Edwin Paxton Hood - 1852 - 802 էջ
...? — ' Life is real — life is earnest, And the grave is not its goal ; "Dust tliou art, to dust returnest," Was not spoken of the soul. ' Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our being's end or way, But to live that each to-morrow Finds us farther than to-day. ' In the world's... | |
| English poetry - 1853 - 552 էջ
...resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land. LONGFELLOW. A PSALM OF LIFE. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul...and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts,... | |
| Elizabeth Nicholson - 1853 - 412 էջ
...^ $0nlm of lift. What the heart of the young man said to the Psalmist. 1 1 TELL me not in mournful numbers, \ Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul...and not sorrow Is our destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts,... | |
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