 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 Saturday Magazine - Page 1351844Full 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...of the soul. Not enjoyment 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... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1838 - 564 pages
...Life is real — life is earnest — And the grave is not its goal : Dust thou art, to dust returnee!, Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destin'd end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. Art is long, and... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Digital images - 1839 - 174 pages
...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 what they...of the soul. Not enjoyment, 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,... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1840 - 424 pages
...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 what they...the soul. " Not enjoyment, 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... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1840 - 588 pages
...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 what they...the soul. " Not enjoyment, 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1840 - 182 pages
...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, Was not...of the soul. Not enjoyment, 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... | |
 | William Johnson Fox - Anthems - 1841 - 132 pages
...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 what they...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,... | |
 | Albany (N.Y.) - 1844 - 104 pages
...triumph. Life IB real ! Life is earnest, And the grave ls not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust retumest, Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way, But to act that each to-morrow, Finds us farther than to-day. LONGFELLOW. To a... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...HAN SAID TO TH* PSALMIST. 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...of the soul. Not enjoyment, 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... | |
 | 1842 - 818 pages
...said to the Psalmist !" " Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an idle dream ! For the soul is dead that slumbers ; And things are not What they...not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not written of the soul. Art is long, and time is fleeting. And our hearts, though stout and brave,... | |
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