 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...  Poems - Σελίδα 21των Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 413 σελίδεςΠλήρης προβολή - Σχετικά με αυτό το βιβλίο
 | 1853 - 888 σελίδες
...widely diffused amongst us ! " Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream, For the seal is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. " Life is real ! — life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; Dost thon art, to dust retumest, Was not spoken of the soul. "Not enjoyment... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 σελίδες
...imperial and sublime compared with the farce of thy self-deluded career. Awake, thou that sleepest — " For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem." And thou, O weary and faltering seeker after a true life ! lift up thy head ; the heights before thee... | |
 | Edward Rupert Humphreys - 1854 - 486 σελίδες
...nor shall ever return again. EXERCISE II. " A Psalm of Life," by LONGFELLOW. Tell me not in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream," For the soul...its goal; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest," Was not spoken to the soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way, But to act, that... | |
 | James Henry Powell - 1854 - 152 σελίδες
...the aoul, he commences with the following lines :— "THE PSALM OF LIFE." " Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul...is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, 112 " Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act. that each to-morrow Find... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1854 - 504 σελίδες
...most fair, The best-beloved Night ! A PSALM OF LIFE. WHAT THS HE1RT OT -. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream ! " For the...what 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. Not enjoyment,... | |
 | Alexander Winton Buchan - 1854 - 332 σελίδες
...Ear'nest, adj, Goal, n. Fleet'ing, part. Biv'ou-ac, n. Main, n. For-lorn', adj. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream !" For the soul...not what they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest I And the grave is not its goal ; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest" Was not spoken of the soul. Not... | |
 | 1854 - 690 σελίδες
...And peaceful is his end. 8 & 7s. M. 444 . LONGFELLOW. " Life is earnest." i TELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ; For the soul...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. 311 2 Life is real ! life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest,... | |
 | Ludwig Herrig - 1854 - 580 σελίδες
...folgenden begeisterungsvollen Worten ausspricht. 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 enjoyraent, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther... | |
 | 1854 - 794 σελίδες
...mournful numbers, Be not like dumb, driven cattle, Life is but an empty dream; Be a hero in the strife. For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Trust not future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead past bury its dead; Life is real ! Life is earnest... | |
 | John Bramston - 1855 - 60 σελίδες
...But Longfellow's well-known lines must come to my aid and release you : — Tell me not in mournful numbers Life is but an empty dream ; For the soul...returnest Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment nnd not sorrow Is our destin'd end or way, But to act that eacb*to-morrovv Finds us farther than to-day.... | |
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