 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...  The Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Page 1by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 375 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 1852 - 588 pages
...to this day of the divine mission of Christ." A PSALM OF LIFE. WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO THE PSALMIST. TELL me not, in mournful numbers,...what they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its gonl: " Bust thou art, to dust returnest," Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment,... | |
 | Cottage verse, Joseph Jones - 1852 - 296 pages
...thousands are dashed in the tide. Sound the loud timbrel &c. 234. Human Life. 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 : Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken to the soul. • Not enjoyment,... | |
 | 1852 - 620 pages
...remember rightly, by Tennyson, or even, except for ridicule, by Wordsworth. " Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul...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 the soul. " Not enjoyment,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1852 - 256 pages
...the most fair, The best-beloved Night. A PSALM OF LIFE. WHAT THE HKAKT OF THK YOUNC MAN SAID TO THK PSALMIST. TELL me not in mournful numbers, " Life...! " For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things arc not what they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; " Dust thou... | |
 | 1853 - 442 pages
...Travancore, and to the garden of Shiraz. SARGENT. 231 of life. What the heart of the young man said to the Psalmist. TELL me not in mournful numbers,...seem. Life is real ! — life is earnest ! — And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment,... | |
 | 1853 - 560 pages
...ungentle canna be The thought o' Mary Morison. BURNS. fsalm 0f fife. WHAT THE HEART OP THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO THE PSALMIST. TELL me not, in mournful numbers,...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 the soul. Not enjoyment,... | |
 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land. LONGFELLOW. A PSALM OF LIFE. 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 ; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest," Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment... | |
 | George Washington Burnap - 1853 - 424 pages
...They may be familiar to you all ; but they lose nothing by repetition : — " Tell me not, in mournful numbers, ' Life is but an empty dream ; ' For the...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. 2... | |
 | George Dawson - 1853 - 552 pages
...road. 179.— 8.7. Let us run with patience the race that it set before us. 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 ; ' Dust thou art, to dust returnest, ' Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment,... | |
 | W H Cordeaux - 1853 - 118 pages
...Sratford upon Avon, in Warwickshire, 1564, and died 1616. THE PSALM OF LIFE. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream ! " For the...they seem. Life is real — life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal, f1) "Dust thou art, to dust returnest, " "Was not spoken of the soul. Not... | |
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