 | Mary Chauncey - 1846 - 148 pages
...very pretty, •ndpOsMMing valuable medicinal qualities. ENEBOY IN ADVEKSITT. 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 reiurnest— Was not spoken to the soul, Let... | |
 | Henry Clapp - 1846 - 228 pages
...and fragrant gardens of the South. A PSALM OF LIFE. BY HENRY W. LON8FBLLOW. Tell "me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul...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... | |
 | 1846 - 756 pages
...Parnassus, we were .unacquainted with before. We shall therefore make our short extracts from these. A PSALM OF LIFE. What the heart of the young man said to the Psalmist.— HW Longfellow. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream ;" For the soul is dead... | |
 | James Sheridan Knowles - 1847 - 344 pages
...acknowledge thy omnipotence. i,ESSON XXXIII. A Psalm of Life, — HW LONGFELLOW, TELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ; For the soul...what they seem. Life is real — life is earnest, But the grave is not its goal ; " Dust thou art — to dust returnest," Was not spoken of the soul.... | |
 | 1847 - 540 pages
...sun-woven wing, And dimpled thy cheek like the roses of spring. MRS. OSOOOD. 26. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. HW LONGFELLOW. 27. A little nonsense, now and then, Is relish'd by the best of men. CHILDHOOD — YOUTH.... | |
 | Abiel Abbot LIVERMORE - 1847 - 172 pages
...following strain, by a distinguished American poet, ought to be familiar to all. It is entitled " The Psalm of Life ; what the heart of the young man said...Psalmist." "Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life i8 but an empty dream ! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And thjngs are not what they seem. " Life... | |
 | 1847 - 526 pages
...sun-woven wing, And dimpled thy cheek like the roses of spring. MRS. OSGOOD. 26. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. HW LONGFELLOW. 27. A little nonsense, now and then, Is relish'd by the best of men. CHILDHOOD — YOUTH.... | |
 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1848 - 684 pages
...this and all other iniquity. 4 LIFE. ВТ WH LOHGFEblOW. ТЕЫ. me not in mournful numbers, " Lue is but an empty dream ! " For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things aie not what they seem. Life is real 1 life is earnest I And the grave is not its goal : " Dust thou... | |
 | 1849 - 472 pages
...hath not. —St. Jerome. LIFE. TELL me not in mournful numbers, " Life is lui t an empty dream ; That the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not...its goal; "Dust thou art, to dust returnest," Was not spoken of the soul. And enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end and way; And to act that... | |
 | 1908 - 678 pages
...and fourth lines of the first verse of Longfellow's ' Psalm of Life ' ?— Tell me not in mournful numbers Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. (a) Are lines 3 and 4 a continuation of the " mournful numbers," which the poet is about to controvert... | |
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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... 
