 | Marcius Willson - Readers - 1860 - 368 pages
...am going to die within the walls ofBagdatV LESSON XV. A PSALM OF LIFE. 1 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' I Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest,"... | |
 | Ellen Courtauld - 1860 - 488 pages
...more. Everlasting, Fuller grace incessant pour ! PM CCCXVII. XONGFE1XOW. 1 TELL me riot 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,"... | |
 | Marcius Willson - Bible stories - 1860 - 372 pages
...am going to die within the walls ofBagdatV LESSON XV. A 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 rear / Life is earnest I And the grave is not its goal; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest,"... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, John Gilbert - American poetry - 1860 - 448 pages
...the most fair, The best-beloved Night! A PSALM OF LIFE. WHAT THE HEART OF THE TOCWO MAX SAID Tu TTIE PSALMIST. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, "Life...empty dream!" For the soul is dead that slumbers, Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; '• Dust thou art, to dust returnest,''... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1861 - 912 pages
...welcome, the thrice-prayed for, the most fair, The best-beloved Night ! A PSALM OF LIFE WHAT THE UEART Ot THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO THE PSALMIST. TELL me not, in...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,... | |
 | David George Pitt - Tales - 1990 - 196 pages
...he listened attentively, made out the words so dear to the parson's heart: Tell me not in mournful numbers "Life is but an empty dream!" For the soul...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. How true, how true, Parson Busby! Things rarely are, indeed, just what they seem! The Woman "Women... | |
 | Edith P. Hazen - Literary Criticism - 1992 - 1172 pages
...her little child to bed, Half willing, half reluctant to be led, (1. 1-3) 38 Tell me not, in mournful 2 not spoken of the soul. (1. 1-8) 39 Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime.... | |
 | John Burnett - Case studies - 1994 - 392 pages
...its horrible Head. Our poem for recitation that year was: Tell me not in mournful numbers Life M hut an empty dream. For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. What uner abysmal dreariness for seven-year-olds . . . [After an absence due to scarlet fever] But... | |
 | Legislators - 1996 - 160 pages
...— face it' 'tis God's gift. "A PSALM OF LIFE," HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul...not what they seem. Life is real! Life is earnest! Let us then be up and doing, With a heart for any fate; Still achieving, still pursuing, Learn to labor... | |
 | Avner Falk - History - 1996 - 868 pages
...quae videntur (things are not always what they look). Longfellow (1839) wrote Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul...dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem and William Gilbert penned the humorous version, "Things are seldom what they seem; skim milk masquerades... | |
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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, 
