 Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave.  The Schoolmate - Page 331edited by - 1854Full view - About this book
 | 1844 - 454 pages
...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, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life,... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1838 - 564 pages
...not sorrow, Is our destin'd 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, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Digital images - 1839 - 174 pages
...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, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life,... | |
 | James Handasyd Perkins - Christian civilization - 1840 - 36 pages
...the victory. If you would be His followers, be prepared to take up each his cross, and follow Him : "Art is long, and Time is fleeting: And our hearts,...though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. Let us, then, be up and doing, With a heart for any fate,... | |
 | Edward Payson Weston - American poetry - 1840 - 228 pages
...lies, And flowers of Eden fringe it round. LINES ON THE DEATH OF BB THATCHER. BY ISAAC M'LELLAN. JR. Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts,...though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. LONGFELLOW, HARK ! the funeral bell is tolling — Calling... | |
 | Unitarianism - 1840 - 424 pages
...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, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. " In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 1840 - 588 pages
...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, 1840.] Longfellow's Voices of the Night. 267 Still, like mtffled drums, are beating Funeral marches... | |
 | Books - 1842 - 610 pages
...sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Finds us farther than to.day. Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still like muffled drums are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life,... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1842 - 638 pages
...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, are beating Funeral marehes to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life,... | |
 | College students' writings, American - 1842 - 512 pages
...stanza which he is accused of plagiarising, is, perhaps, the most elegant and finished in the piece : " Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts,...though stout and brave. Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave." It is said, that the idea on which the last three lines... | |
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