 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...  Poems - Page 21by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1850 - 413 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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.... | |
 | 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.... | |
 | Abiel Abbot LIVERMORE - 1847 - 172 pages
...; what the heart of the young man said to the 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 is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; '... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Joseph Guy - 1849 - 118 pages
...What the heart of the young man said to the Psalmist. PROFESSOR 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! And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returuest! Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 1849 - 478 pages
...serene and fixed in faith, 310. x 8 & 7s. M. LONGFELLOW. PSALM OF LIFE. 1 TELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ; For the soul...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. 2 Life is real ! life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art. to dust returnest,... | |
 | 430 pages
...himself slipped, in unconsciously emulative haste : — THE PSALM OF LIFE. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream," For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things arc not what they seem. This is a grave, fine beginning, and it rises in force naturally : Life is... | |
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