 | English poetry - 1853 - 552 pages
...resurrection, Emblems of the bright and better land. LONGFELLOW. 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. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest,"... | |
 | George Dawson - 1853 - 552 pages
...road. 179.— 8.7. Let us run with patience the race that it set before us. 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,... | |
 | Poets, American - 1853 - 560 pages
...BURNS. fsalm 0f fife. WHAT THE HEART OP 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,... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - Readers - 1853 - 300 pages
...syllables. BIVOUAC ; blv'oo-ftk; required by the metre to be in three syllables TELL me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream ! " For the...is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seern. Life is reaZ! life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest,"... | |
 | Hymns, English - 1853 - 162 pages
...Tell me not in mournful numhers " Life is hut an emptv dn-am," For the soul i.< dead that slumhers, And things are not what they seem 2 Life is real ! life is earnest, And the grave is not its goal; "Dust thou nrt, to dust returnest," Was not spoken of the soul. 3 Not enjoyment,... | |
 | Abel Stevens, James Floy - American essays - 1853 - 594 pages
...imperial and sublime compared with the farce of thy self-deluded career. Awake, thou that sleepest — " For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem." And thou, O weary and faltering seeker after a true life ! lift up thy head ; the heights before thee... | |
 | S. Herbert Lancey - American literature - 1854 - 338 pages
...LONGFELLOW. A PSALM OF LIFE. WHAT THE HEAKT OF THE YOUNG MAN SATO TO THE PSALMIST. 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 thou art, to dust returnest,'... | |
 | American poetry - 1854 - 456 pages
...incorruptible. Would they could have stayed with us ! A PSALM OF LIFE. — Lamgfellaw. 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 thou art, to dust returnest,"... | |
 | Hymns - 1854 - 690 pages
...And peaceful is his end. 8 & 7s. M. 444 . LONGFELLOW. " Life is earnest." i TELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ; For the soul...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. 311 2 Life is real ! life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest,... | |
 | Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 pages
...pilgrimage I fare, Eesolved to find and praise Him everywhere. J. Gostick. 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," Was... | |
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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... 
