 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...  An Odyssey: From Ebbw Vale to Tyneside - Page ixby Raymond Hicks - 2007 - 234 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1844 - 454 pages
...LIFE AND ITS DUTIES. BY PROFESSOR LONGFELLOW. LIFE is real ! Life is earnest ! i And the grave is not its goal ; "Dust thou art, to dust returnest," Was...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,... | |
 | Christian life - 1864 - 346 pages
...particularly of their own families." KITTY CARROLL; OR, "TO THE UTTERMOST." PAET in. " Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act that each to-morrow Find ua further than to-day." JIM and Mary Edmonds -had set themselves no easy task when they determined... | |
 | 1848 - 780 pages
...but the evidence of internal being. More than all, he teaches ever the lofty lesson, "Not enjoyment and not sorrow Is our destined end or way, But to act that each to-morrow Findi ut farther than to day." 1849.] [JANUARY, The little volume of Evangeline, viewed apart from... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Digital images - 1839 - 174 pages
...YOUJTO Mil! >11D TO THE PIALWI9T. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are 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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1840 - 588 pages
...with this of the " Psalm of Life." "Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are 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... | |
 | Theology - 1840 - 424 pages
...young man said to the Psalmist. " Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are 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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1840 - 584 pages
...with this of the " Psalm of Life." "Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are 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 stoiit and... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1840 - 182 pages
...best-beloved Night ! A PSALM OF LIFE. 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. L;fe is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest,... | |
 | William Johnson Fox - Anthems - 1841 - 132 pages
...of all time, On, on, for ever ! TELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not...its goal ; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest," Was not spoken of the soul. Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime ; And, departing,... | |
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