 | 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,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1852 - 256 pages
...Night. A PSALM OF LIFE. WHAT THE HKAKT OF THK YOUNC MAN SAID TO THK PSALMIST. 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. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; " Dust thou... | |
 | 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., For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. " Life is real ! Life iз earnest ! And (lie grave is not its goal ! Dust thou art, to dust veturnest,... | |
 | Elizabeth Nicholson - Literature - 1853 - 412 pages
...garden of Shiraz. SARGENT. 231 ^ $0nlm of lift. What the heart of the young man said to the Psalmist. 1 1 TELL me not in mournful numbers, \ Life is but an...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,... | |
 | William Holmes McGuffey - Elocution - 1853 - 492 pages
...and find yourselves alone, in the presence of an Almighty God. TATLOH. LESSON XC. > A PSALM OF LIFE. 1. TELL me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an...is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they Beem. 2. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its +goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest,... | |
 | 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...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real — life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal, f1) "Dust thou art, to dust returnest,... | |
 | Samuel Prout Newcomb - Children - 1853 - 446 pages
...James and Jacob. fTo be continned.} • PLKASANT PAGES. A PSALM OF LIFE. TRLL me not, in aiournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream !" For the .soul...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real I Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest,"... | |
 | Blanchard Jerrold - 1853 - 122 pages
...pockets, and cotton-wool in their ears. To these Longfellow writes : — " Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ; For the soul...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem." To the heated speculator, busy with the rise and fall of funds, Life is the toss of a coin ; to the... | |
 | 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...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. • Life is real : life is earnest ; And the grave is not its goal : ' Dust tliou art, — to dust... | |
 | American literature - 1853 - 442 pages
...SARGENT. 231 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...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,... | |
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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... 
