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, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. Readings in science and literature - Page 358by Daniel Scrymgeour - 1851Full 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...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 our hearts, though stout and brave,... | |
| Christian life - 1864 - 346 pages
...particularly of their own families." KITTY CARROLL; OR, "TO THE UTTERMOST." PAET in. " Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act that each to-morrow Find ua further than to-day." JIM and Mary Edmonds -had set themselves no easy task when they determined... | |
| 1848 - 780 pages
...but the evidence of internal being. More than all, he teaches ever the lofty lesson, "Not enjoyment and not sorrow Is our destined end or way, But to act that each to-morrow Findi ut farther than to day." 1849.] [JANUARY, The little volume of Evangeline, viewed apart from... | |
| 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...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 our hearts, though stout and... | |
| 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...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 our hearts, though stoiit and... | |
| 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...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 our hearts, though stout and... | |
| 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...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 our hearts, though stout and... | |
| 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...that each to-morrow, Finds us farther than to-day. LONGFELLOW. To a Streamlet. BY THKODORG T. LAKE. Again thy verdant banks I greet, Adorned with blooming... | |
| 1870 - 406 pages
...is the right aim. With such a purpose, you may fitly recall the familiar strain — Not enjoyment, and not sorrow, Is our destined end or way ; But to act that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. J. CLIFFORD. A SONG OF THE YEAE. 0 .' days and hours, your work is this,... | |
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