 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1853 - 300 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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 Seiten
...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,... | |
 | 1854 - 428 Seiten
...but his "Psalm of Life," he would never be forgotten while the English language would be remembered. A PSALM OF LIFE. WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN SAID...TO THE PSALMIST. ' Tell me not in mournful numbers : Be not like dumb, driven cattle ! " Life i» but an empty dream !" | Be a hero in the strife ! For... | |
 | 1854 - 794 Seiten
...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... | |
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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... 
