 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 Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Page 3by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1877 - 644 pagesFull view - About this book
 | 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...farther than to-day. Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the... | |
 | Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1838 - 564 pages
...art, to dust returnee!, Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destin'd end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Find...farther than to-day. Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1839 - 174 pages
...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...than to-day. •< Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the... | |
 | 1840 - 424 pages
...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...than to-day. " Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 588 pages
...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...than to-day. " Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, 1840.] Longfellow's Voices of the Night. 267 Still, like mtffled... | |
 | Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 584 pages
...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...than to-day. " Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stoiit and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to... | |
 | 1844 - 104 pages
...triumph. Life IB real ! Life is earnest, And the grave ls not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust retumest, Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment and not...destined end or way, But to act that each to-morrow, Finds us farther than to-day. LONGFELLOW. To a Streamlet. BY THKODORG T. LAKE. Again thy verdant banks... | |
 | Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...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...farther than to-day. Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stout and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marehes to the... | |
 | 1842 - 610 pages
...Life is real ! Life is earnest ! And the grave is not its goal ; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Wat not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment and not sorrow,...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, though stout and brave,... | |
 | 1842 - 712 pages
...be lost ?— "Lite is real, life is earnest, And the srave is not its goal; Dust tliou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment,...sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that cacli to-morrow Find us farther than to-day." Life of Petrarch. By Thomas Campbell, Esq. London. 1841.... | |
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