 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...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 is dead...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,... | |
 | American literature - 1853 - 442 pages
...231 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 is dead...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,... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...fsalm 0f fife. WHAT THE HEART OP THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO THE PSALMIST. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul is dead...and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Finds us farther than to-day. LONGFELLOW. 35 Art is long, and time is fleeting,... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - Literature - 1853 - 412 pages
...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 is dead...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,... | |
 | Languages, Modern - 1853 - 496 pages
...folgenben begeifterungöcollen SBorten аuêfpríфt. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal „Dust thou art, to dust returnest," Was...and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. In the world's broad field of battle, In the... | |
 | Samuel Prout Newcomb - Children - 1853 - 446 pages
...slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real I Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest," Was...and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farthsr than to-day. Art is longr, and time is fleoting, And our hearts,... | |
 | Emily Juliana May - 1853 - 420 pages
...suitable place and work will be found in heaveu ? " Life is real, life is earnest, And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not...and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow CHAPTER VII. "Ye pay tithe of mint, anise, and cummin, and have omitted the... | |
 | W H Cordeaux - 1853 - 118 pages
...Avon, in Warwickshire, 1564, and died 1616. THE PSALM OF LIFE. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream ! " For the soul is dead...they seem. Life is real — life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal, f1) "Dust thou art, to dust returnest, " "Was not spoken of the soul. Not... | |
 | George Washington Burnap - 1853 - 424 pages
...familiar to you all ; but they lose nothing by repetition : — " Tell me not, in mournful numbers, ' Life is but an empty dream ; ' For the soul is dead...they seem. • 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. 2... | |
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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, Was not spoken of... 
