... Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living Present ! Heart within, and God o'erhead ! Lives of great men all remind us We can make... The Complete Poetical Works of Longfellow - Page 3by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1922 - 689 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1844 - 454 pages
...of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another,...shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. THE CIRCASSIAN... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 588 pages
...our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; " Footsteps, thai perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main,...; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait." — pp. 5-7. Or that exquisite and tender poem, the "Footsteps of Angels." "When the... | |
| 1840 - 424 pages
...our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; " Footsteps, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main,...; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait." It would not be easy to find a " strain in a higher mood " than this ; it is equally... | |
| The Mirror of Literature,Amusement,and Instruction.New Series.VOL.V - 1844 - 440 pages
...great men all remind us ЛУe can make our lives sublime, And departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; Footprints, that perhaps another,...shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate ; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labour and to wait. THE CIRCASSIAN... | |
| William Draper Swan - 1845 - 494 pages
...o'erhead ! Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time — Footprints,...; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. LESSON LXII. EXERCISES IN ARTICULATION. Kerb, verb, curb, curb'd, curb'dst, herbs, verbs,... | |
| Henry Clapp - 1846 - 238 pages
...our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time. Footsteps, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main,...; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. A HARMLESS SOLDIERY. The good people of Nantucket never had the military disease but once,... | |
| American Institute of Instruction - 1846 - 332 pages
...our lives sublime ; And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; Footsteps, that perhaps another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main,...; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait." LECTURE III. ON THE BEAU IDEAL OF THE PERFECT TEACHER. BY DENISON OLMSTED, LL.D. PROFESSOR... | |
| Josiah Moody Fletcher - 1847 - 148 pages
...of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And1 departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ;, Footprints, that perhaps another,...; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. LONGFELLOW. Disappointment. Playful she turned that he might see The passing smile her... | |
| Edward Everett - 1848 - 586 pages
...* " Lives of great men all remind us " We can make our lives sublime, " And departing, leave behind us "Foot-prints on the sands of time; "Foot-prints,...Still achieving, still pursuing, " Learn to labor ana to wait." And having thus spoken of the work to be done on earth, I could further imagine that... | |
| Timothy Stone Pinneo - 1847 - 502 pages
...great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprintson the sands of time; Footprints, that perhaps another,...; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor and to wait. HW Los GALLOW LESSON C. MATERNAL INFLUENCE. J THE minds of children are easily interested,... | |
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