 | 1854 - 400 pages
...and the full harvest in the world to come. " Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; 'Dust thou art, to dust returnest,' Was...and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act that each to-morrowFind us farther than to-day. " Lives of great men all remind us We can make... | |
 | Harriette McDougall - 1854 - 164 pages
...FROM SARAWAK, to a <£jillr. MRS. M'DOUGALL. ' Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest," Was...and not sorrow, Is our destined end or Way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day.' NORWICH : THOMAS PRIEST, RAMPANT HORSE ST. LONDON... | |
 | 1855 - 458 pages
...could have stayed with us ! A PSALM OF LIFE.— Langfellow. • TELL me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream ! " For the soul is dead...and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us further than to-day. Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 264 pages
...OF LIFE. WHAT THE Hr.AUT OF THE YOTTN%HAN SAID TO THE PSALUI^T. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream ! " For the soul is dead...and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts,... | |
 | Anna Cabot Lowell - 1855 - 452 pages
...they could have stayed with us ! A PSALM OF LIFE. — Longfellow. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream ! " For the soul is dead...and not sorrow, Is our destined end or -way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us further than to-day. Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts,... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1855 - 578 pages
...OF LIFE. WHAT THE HEART OF THE YOUNG MAN SAID TO THE PSALMIST. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream !" For the soul is dead...and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Finds us farther than to-day. Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts,... | |
 | Clavin Henderson Wiley - 1855 - 380 pages
...it, as now light dispels the dark ! A PSALM Or LIFE. BY LONGFEILOW. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul is dead...and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts,... | |
 | George Sumner Weaver - 1855 - 312 pages
...with which all youth should be fired. Let us read it and close. * Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul is dead...and not sorrow Is our destined end or way ; But to act that each to-morrow Find us farther than to day. Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts,... | |
 | George Sumner Weaver - 1855 - 270 pages
...us read it and close. Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream ! For the soul ia dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem....and not sorrow Is our destined end or way ; But to act that each to-morrow Find us farther than to day. Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts,... | |
 | John Bramston - 1855 - 60 pages
...Longfellow's well-known lines must come to my aid and release you : — Tell me not in mournful numbers Life is but an empty dream ; For the soul is dead...returnest Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment nnd not sorrow Is our destin'd end or way, But to act that eacb*to-morrovv Finds us farther than to-day.... | |
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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... 
