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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... "
A Library of Poetry and Song: Being Choice Selections from the Best Poets - Page 580
1872 - 789 pages
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The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction, Volume 43

1844 - 454 pages
...LIFE AND ITS DUTIES. BY PROFESSOR LONGFELLOW. LIFE is real ! Life is earnest ! i And the grave is not its goal ; "Dust thou art, to dust returnest," Was...And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the...
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Voices of the Night

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1839 - 174 pages
...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...And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the...
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Christian Examiner and Theological Review, Volume 28

1840 - 424 pages
...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...And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. " In the world's broad field of battle, In...
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The North American Review, Volume 50

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 588 pages
...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...fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, 1840.] Longfellow's Voices of the Night. 267 Still, like mtffled drums, are beating Funeral marches...
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The North American Review, Volume 50

Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 584 pages
...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...long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stoiit and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. " In the world's...
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Voices of the Night

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1840 - 182 pages
...slumbers, And things are not what they seem. L;fe is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not...And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the...
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The Poets and Poetry of America: With an Historical Introduction

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...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...And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marehes to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the...
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Voices of the Night

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 174 pages
...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...And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the...
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The Illustrated Book of Christian Ballads and Other Poems, Volume 6

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1844 - 188 pages
...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...And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the...
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Gems from the American Poets: With Brief Biographical Notices

Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1844 - 136 pages
...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...And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, arc beating Funeral marches to the grave. Be not like dumb, driven cattle ! Be a hero...
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