 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...Night ! A PSALM OF LIFE. WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO THE PSALMIST. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream !" For the soul...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 soul. Not enjoyment,... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old. MACAULAY. A PSALM OF LIFE. Tell me not in mournful numbers Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. 1 See note 3, p. 231. Life is real — Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal; " Dust thou... | |
 | 1852 - 620 pages
...remember rightly, by Tennyson, or even, except for ridicule, by Wordsworth. " Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul...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 soul. " Not enjoyment,... | |
 | 1852 - 588 pages
...Christ." A PSALM OF LIFE. WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO THE PSALMIST. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream !" For the soul...what they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its gonl: " Bust thou art, to dust returnest," Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment,... | |
 | Cottage verse, Joseph Jones - 1852 - 296 pages
...thousands are dashed in the tide. Sound the loud timbrel &c. 234. Human Life. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul...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 to the soul. • Not enjoyment,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1852 - 588 pages
...Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not...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, though stout and brave,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 256 pages
...Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; " Dust thou art, to dust rcturnest," Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not...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, though stout and brave,... | |
 | Choice descriptive poetry - 1852 - 112 pages
...Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest," Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment and not...destined end or way ; But to act that each to-morrow Find us further than to-day. Trust no future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead past bury its dead !... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - 1852 - 610 pages
...Life is real ! Life iз earnest ! And (lie grave is not its goal ! Dust thou art, to dust veturnest, T# t BՏ|R P F | T Q ST w &طb <M H WsÎ 6 ;s о: &6 b6< ̸ L ģn q:f ^ ]R^l Hp to-шorrow Find us further than to-day. " Art is long and time is fleeting, And our hearts though stout... | |
 | Frederic Townsend - 1852 - 292 pages
...singing unto myself, the first and sixth verses of Longfellow's Psalm of Life. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, » Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant, Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act — act in the living Present... | |
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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, 
