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... The Southern literary messenger - Página 1531842Vista completa - Acerca de este libro
| Samuel Prout Newcomb - 1853 - 446 páginas
...continned.} • PLKASANT PAGES. A PSALM OF LIFE. TRLL me not, in aiournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream !" For the .soul is dead 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," Was not spoken... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1853 - 496 páginas
...PSALMIST. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, "Life is but an empty dream ! " For the soul is iJejid that slumbers, And things/ are not what they seem* Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the jgave_is not its goal ; "Dust thou art, to dust returnest," Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our... | |
| Blanchard Jerrold - 1853 - 122 páginas
...their ears. To these Longfellow writes : — " 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." To the heated speculator, busy with the rise and fall of funds, Life is the toss of a coin ; to the... | |
| Frederic Henry Hedge, Frederic Dan Huntington - 1853 - 674 páginas
...assaileth Every form of wrong. 730. 8 & 7s. M. 1 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. 2 Life is real ! life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest,... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 páginas
...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... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1853 - 300 páginas
...required by the metre to be in three syllables 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 seern. Life is reaZ! life is earnest! And the grave is not its goal; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest,"... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 páginas
...God. TATLOH. LESSON XC. > A PSALM OF LIFE. 1. 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 Beem. 2. Life is real! Life is earnest! And the grave is not its +goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest,... | |
| William Delafield Arnold - 1854 - 358 páginas
...;uvi GA SPOTTISWOODE, New-Strect-Square. " Tell ine not in mournful numbers " Life is but an empty dream ! " For the soul is dead that slumbers, " And...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... | |
| Cyclopaedia, Henry Gardiner Adams - 1854 - 762 páginas
...find and praise Him everywhere. J. Gostick. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, "Life is but an empty dream!" For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things...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... | |
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