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... Hymns and Anthems - Página lxpor William Johnson Fox - 1841 - 100 páginasVista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Blanchard Jerrold - 1853 - 122 páginas
...pockets, and cotton-wool in their ears. To these Longfellow writes : — " Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ; For the soul...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem." To the heated speculator, busy with the rise and fall of funds, Life is the toss of a coin ; to the... | |
| Frederic Henry Hedge, Frederic Dan Huntington - 1853 - 674 páginas
...strong, In the power of truth assaileth Every form of wrong. 730. 8 & 7s. M. 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. 2 Life is real ! life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest,... | |
| Charles Brooks - 1853 - 378 páginas
...Father's work, We rest upon his arm. 52. 8&7s. M. LONGFELLOW. PSALM OF LIFE. 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. 2 Life is real ! life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest,... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 páginas
...in the presence of an Almighty God. TATLOH. LESSON XC. > A PSALM OF LIFE. 1. 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 Beem. 2. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its +goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest,... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1853 - 300 páginas
...syllables. BIVOUAC ; blv'oo-ftk; required by the metre to be in three syllables TELL me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream ! " For the...is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seern. Life is reaZ! life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest,"... | |
| 1853 - 888 páginas
...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... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 496 páginas
...PSALMIST. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, "Life is but an empty dream ! " For the soul is iJejid that slumbers, And things/ are not what they seem* Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the jgave_is not its goal ; "Dust thou art, to dust returnest," Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 páginas
...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 páginas
...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... | |
| 1854 - 456 páginas
...incorruptible. Would they could have stayed with us ! A PSALM OF LIFE. — Lamgfellaw. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream ! " For the...its goal ; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest," Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act, that... | |
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