 | Gems - 1851 - 206 pages
...to its haven of securest rest! Linger not long! ANON. A PSALM OF LIFE. What the heart of the young man said to the Psalmist. Tell me not in mournful...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 returneth, Was... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1851 - 596 pages
...thrice-prayed for, the most fair, The best-beloved Night ! A PSALM OF LIFE. WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO THE PSALMIST. TELL me not, in mournful...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,"... | |
 | Edward Hughes - 1851 - 362 pages
...divided us, and thereby made us slaves." — Guesses at Truth, by Two Brothers. 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 returuest... | |
 | 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... | |
 | Churches of Christ - 1852 - 588 pages
...evidence to this day of the divine mission of Christ." A PSALM OF LIFE. WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO THE PSALMIST. TELL me not, in mournful...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its gonl: " Bust thou art, to dust returnest,"... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - American poetry - 1852 - 256 pages
...the most fair, The best-beloved Night. A PSALM OF LIFE. WHAT THE HKAKT OF THK YOUNC MAN SAID TO THK PSALMIST. TELL me not in mournful numbers, " Life...! " 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... | |
 | 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...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,... | |
 | 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...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,... | |
 | 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... | |
 | 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... | |
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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... 
