 Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; '° But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. Art is long, and Time is fleeting. And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums,...  The Complete Poetical Works of Longfellow - Page 3by Longfellow - 1922Full view - About this book
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1839 - 174 pages
...THE YOUJTO Mil! >11D TO THE PIALWI9T. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are...and God o'erhead ! Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; Footsteps,... | |
 | 1840 - 424 pages
...the young man said to the Psalmist. " Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are...God o'erhead ! " Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; " Footsteps,... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 584 pages
...to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. " Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stoiit and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating...God o'erhead ! " Lives of great men all remind us Iff. can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; "... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 588 pages
...our hearts, though stout and brave, 1840.] Longfellow's Voices of the Night. 267 Still, like mtffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. "...God o'erhead ! " Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time ; " Footsteps,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marehes to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle,...another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwreck'd brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart... | |
 | 1842 - 610 pages
...like dumb, driven cattle! Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the (lead Past bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living Present...another Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwreck'd brother Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for... | |
 | 1842 - 512 pages
...inculcates could not have been presented to the mind in a more enticing form. We quote but a portion : " Trust no future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead past...God o'erhead ! " Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of time. " Footsteps... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 174 pages
...THE TOUWG HAW SAID TO THE P9ALMI3T. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, "Life is but an empty dream ! " For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are...and God o'erhead ! Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footsteps on the sands of tune ; Footprints,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 280 pages
...; Dust thou^art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. 20 A PSALM OF LIFE. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to...another, . Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwreck'd brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1843 - 278 pages
...spoken of the soul. 20 A PSALM: OF LIFE. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; I But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than...another, Sailing o'er life's solemn main, A forlorn and shipwreck'd brother, Seeing, shall take heart again. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart... | |
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