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... Hidden Life: Memorials of John Whitmore Winslow - Page 77by Octavius Winslow - 1872 - 214 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...enjoyment 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... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - American periodicals - 1838 - 564 pages
...Life is real — life is earnest — And the grave is not its goal : Dust thou 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 us farther than to-day. Art is long, and... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Digital images - 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...enjoyment, 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,... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 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...enjoyment, 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,... | |
| Theology - 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...enjoyment, 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,... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - American fiction - 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...enjoyment, 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,... | |
| Albany (N.Y.) - 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 sorrow, Is our destined end or way, But to act that each to-morrow, Finds us farther than to-day. LONGFELLOW. To a Streamlet. BY THKODORG... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - American poetry - 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...enjoyment, 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... | |
| United States - 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, and not 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,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 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...enjoyment, 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... | |
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