 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...  Hymns and Anthems - Page lxxiiby William Johnson Fox - 1845 - 107 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 pages
...Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old. MACAULAY. A 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. 1 See note 3, p. 231. Life is real — Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal; " Dust thou... | |
 | Ireland - 1855 - 724 pages
...mournful number. Be " hcl'° ln ""•' "lliic ! Life la but ail empty dream ! For the soul is dead tlmt slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; Duct then art, to dust returned 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...not its goal : Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken to the soul. • Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act,... | |
 | 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...not its goal ! Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. " Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destin'd end or way ; But to act that... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 1852 - 588 pages
...HAN SAID TO TEX MttlOR Tin me not, in mournful numbers, Life is bat an empty dream ! For the suol U dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem....not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act, that... | |
 | Churches of Christ - 1852 - 588 pages
...Christ." A PSALM OF LIFE. WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO THE PSALMIST. 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 gonl: " Bust thou art, to dust returnest," Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment,... | |
 | Frederic Townsend - American fiction - 1852 - 292 pages
...singing unto myself, the first and sixth verses 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. Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant, Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act — act in the living Present... | |
 | John Holmes Agnew, Walter Hilliard Bidwell, Henry T. Steele - American periodicals - 1852 - 610 pages
...ridicule, by Wordsworth. " Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! 1852.] [Oct., ber, it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the iз earnest ! And (lie grave is not its goal ! Dust thou art, to dust veturnest, Was not spoken of... | |
 | Choice descriptive poetry - 1852 - 112 pages
...rainbow's lovely form, Evanishing amid the storm. ROBERT BURNS. LIFE IN EARNEST. TELL me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not as they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; " Dust thou art, to... | |
 | American poetry - 1852 - 196 pages
...hand upon thy mane — as I do here. Jl ^anlra of life. BY H. LONGFELLOW. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are riot what they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; " Dust thou art,... | |
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