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 Sunday school union hymn book - 340 psl.autoriai: Leeds Sunday school union - 1879Visos knygos peržiūra - Apie šią knygą
| Blanchard Jerrold - 1853 - 122 psl.
...and cotton-wool in 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... | |
| English poetry - 1853 - 552 psl.
...Emblems of the bright and better land. LONGFELLOW. A PSALM OF LIFE. 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,"... | |
| W H Cordeaux - 1853 - 118 psl.
...Avon, in Warwickshire, 1564, and died 1616. THE PSALM OF LIFE. 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, f1) "Dust thou art, to dust returnest,... | |
| William Holmes McGuffey - 1853 - 492 psl.
...presence of an Almighty 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,... | |
| David Bates Tower, Cornelius Walker - 1853 - 300 psl.
...BIVOUAC ; blv'oo-ftk; 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,"... | |
| 1853 - 162 psl.
...Tell me not in mournful numhers " Life is hut an emptv dn-am," For the soul i.< dead that slumhers, And things are not what they seem 2 Life is real ! life is earnest, And the grave is not its goal; "Dust thou nrt, to dust returnest," Was not spoken of the soul. 3 Not enjoyment,... | |
| Abel Stevens, James Floy - 1853 - 594 psl.
...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... | |
| 1854 - 690 psl.
...is but an empty dream ; For the soul is dead that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. 311 2 Life is real ! life is earnest ! And the grave is...spoken of the soul. 3 Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end and way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us further than to-day. 4 Let us,... | |
| S. Herbert Lancey - 1854 - 338 psl.
...OF LIFE. WHAT THE HEAKT OF THE YOUNG MAN SATO TO THE PSALMIST. 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,'... | |
| James Henry Powell - 1854 - 152 psl.
...he commences with the following lines :— "THE PSALM OF LIFE." " 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,... | |
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