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
| Andrew Jackson Graham - 1857 - 88 σελίδες
...bth sxs, mbb e b"s rvlm" ! KEY. USES OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY. " Tefl me not in mournful numbers, ' lite a but an empty dream !' For the soul is dead that slumbers. And things are not what they seem." It seems to me that nothing less than the Divine Intelligence can comprehend the infinite possibilities... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1857 - 456 σελίδες
...am to die : I am to die." LXXVII. — A PSALM OF LIFE. FKOM LONGFELLOW. 1. TELL me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things fire not what they seem. 2. Life is real! Life is earnest! 1 And the grave is not its f goal; Dust... | |
| Henry Ward Beecher - 1857 - 508 σελίδες
...o'er at. ытгу II — _ II 1. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Liie is but an emp-ty dream ; í For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what theyseem. (2 Life is re-all life is storms that round us swell, Are aid-ing to re - store us To all... | |
| John Burnett - 1994 - 392 σελίδες
...its horrible Head. Our poem for recitation that year was: Tell me not in mournful numbers Life M hut an empty dream. For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. What uner abysmal dreariness for seven-year-olds . . . [After an absence due to scarlet fever] But... | |
| 1996 - 160 σελίδες
...— face it' 'tis God's gift. "A PSALM OF LIFE," HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW 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! Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor... | |
| Avner Falk - 1996 - 868 σελίδες
...quae videntur (things are not always what they look). Longfellow (1839) wrote Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul...dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem and William Gilbert penned the humorous version, "Things are seldom what they seem; skim milk masquerades... | |
| Gerhard O. Forde - 1997 - 144 σελίδες
...all, the dream of the souls indestructibility is attractive and comforting. 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; 3. Paul Ricoeur, The Symbolism of Evil, translated by Emerson Buchanan (Nc... | |
| Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 σελίδες
...the throng. But in ourselves, are triumph and defeat. 6500 'A Psalm ofLife' Tell me not, in mournful n, and I am but a barren stock. 3280 (to troops at Tilbury on approach of Armada) I the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust retumest, Was not spoken of the soul. 6501 'A Psalm... | |
| 李翠亭, 李正栓 - 1998 - 264 σελίδες
...3.According to this selection, what do you think the author believes in? PaSSagelO Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul...slumbers, And things are not what they seem Life is real@life is earnest 53 And the grave is not its goal Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken... | |
| Katherine Sherwood Bonner McDowell - 2000 - 532 σελίδες
...cares. The last quotation comes from Longfellow's "Psalm of Life" (st. 1): "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 2. The Palace of the Doges, another art museum, was said to date from 800, the time of the first... | |
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