 | Congregational union of England and Wales - 1848 - 684 páginas
...this and all other iniquity. 4 LIFE. ВТ WH LOHGFEblOW. ТЕЫ. me not in mournful numbers, " Lue is but an empty dream ! " For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things aie not what they seem. Life is real 1 life is earnest I And the grave is not its goal : " Dust thou... | |
 | 1908 - 678 páginas
...OF LIFE.' — What is the meaning of the third and fourth lines of the first verse of Longfellow's ' Psalm of Life ' ?— Tell me not in mournful numbers...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. (a) Are lines 3 and 4 a continuation of the " mournful numbers," which the poet is about to controvert... | |
 | 430 páginas
...proneness of others to fall into this error, has himself slipped, in unconsciously emulative haste : — THE PSALM OF LIFE. Tell me not, in mournful numbers,...dream," For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things arc not what they seem. This is a grave, fine beginning, and it rises in force naturally : Life is... | |
 | 1849 - 478 páginas
...serene and fixed in faith, 310. x 8 & 7s. M. LONGFELLOW. 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 real ! life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art. to dust returnest,... | |
 | David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1850 - 292 páginas
...syllables. BIVOUAC ; blv'oo-iVk ; required by the metre to be in three syllables. TELL me not, in mournful numbers, " Life is but an empty dream ! " For the...slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life is reaZ ! life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; " Dust thou art, to dust returnest," Was not... | |
 | 1850 - 604 páginas
...A PSALM 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...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. j " Life is real ! life is earnest, And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art. to dust returnest,... | |
 | William Adams - 1850 - 392 páginas
...much loftier and truer are the lines of our great American poet, Longfellow: " Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream, For the soul is dead flint slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Life u real! life is earnest! And the Grave is not... | |
 | Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851 - 424 páginas
...Then spoils were fairly sold ; The Romans were like brothers In the brave days of old. MACAULAY. A PSALM OF LIFE. Tell me not in mournful numbers Life...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... | |
 | Frederic Townsend - 1852 - 292 páginas
...Finis. I will conclude my service, by singing unto myself, the first and sixth verses of Longfellow's Psalm of Life. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, »...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 páginas
...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. 
