 | 136 sidor
...discoverable, in the greatest geniuses and most exalted souls. Cicero 106-43b.c. 1 . Tell me not, in mournful numbers, "Life is but an empty dream!" For the soul...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 soul. Not enjoyment,... | |
 | 2006 - 364 sidor
...3) According to this selection, what do you think the author believes in? Tell me not, in mournful numbers. Life is but an empty dream! For the soul...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... | |
 | Barbara Brady - 2006 - 125 sidor
...cheerily, "Here's one by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. It has a nice rhythm to it." Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!— For the soul...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem... "Good grief," said Lucy, "that's too gloomy." Her eyes scanned to the ending. She looked at Dorothea.... | |
 | Paul F. Jopling - 2006 - 544 sidor
...Nashua, New Hampshire. One of the perpetrators of the Katyn Forest massacre. One Tell me not in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!^ For the soul...that slumbers, And things are not what they seem. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life Godfrey Christopher had known there was a tide in the affairs... | |
 | Tom Walsh - 2007 - 200 sidor
...but the triumph of principles. A Psalm of Life Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! For the soul...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 soul. Not enjoyment,... | |
 | Daniel Walker Howe - 2007 - 926 sidor
...(1838), after rejecting a pessimistic outlook, endorses conscientious striving: Tell me not in mournful numbers, "Life is but an empty dream, For the soul...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 soul. . . . Lives... | |
 | Raymond Hicks - 2007 - 238 sidor
...Hicks Preface A Psalm of Life Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — Tor 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 soul. Not enjoyment,... | |
 | John Ramsey - 2008 - 157 sidor
...and not in the outcome. He differs with Solomon's assessment when he says: Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! — For the soul...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 soul. Not enjoyment,... | |
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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, 
