Was not spoken of the soul. Not enjoyment and not sorrow. Is our destined end or way; But to act, that each tomorrow Find us farther than today. Art is long, and time is fleeting. And our hearts, though stout and brave. Still, like muffled drums are beating... American Poetry - Page 365by Percy Holmes Boynton - 1918 - 721 pagesFull view - About this book
| 1844 - 454 pages
...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...! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Fast bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living Present ! Heart within, and God o'erhead ! Lives of... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1838 - 564 pages
...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...the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle 1 Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act... | |
| Charles Fenno Hoffman, Lewis Gaylord Clark, Timothy Flint, Kinahan Cornwallis, John Holmes Agnew - 1838 - 566 pages
...sorrow, Is our destin'd end or way ; But to act, that each to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. IT. Art is long, and time is fleeting, And our hearts,...the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb, driven cattle I Be a hero in the strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1839 - 174 pages
...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...Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living Present ! Heart within, and God o'erhead ! Lives of great men... | |
| 1840 - 424 pages
...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...no Future, howe'er pleasant, Let the dead past bury its dead ! Act, act in the living Present ! Heart within and God o'erhead ! " Lives of great men all... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 584 pages
...to-morrow Find us farther than to-day. " Art is long, and Time is fleeting, And our hearts, though stoiit and brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating...Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living Present ! Heart within, and God o'erhead ! " Lives of great men... | |
| Jared Sparks, Edward Everett, James Russell Lowell, Henry Cabot Lodge - 1840 - 588 pages
...our hearts, though stout and brave, 1840.] Longfellow's Voices of the Night. 267 Still, like mtffled drums, are beating Funeral marches to the grave. "...Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living Present ! Heart within, and God o'erhead ! " Lives of great men... | |
| 1842 - 610 pages
...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. Art is long, and Time is fleeting,...strife ! Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the (lead Past bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living Present ! Heart within, and GoD o'erhead ! Lives... | |
| Rufus Wilmot Griswold - 1842 - 638 pages
...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...brave, Still, like muffled drums, are beating Funeral marehes to the grave. In the world's broad field of battle, In the bivouac of Life, Be not like dumb,... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1843 - 174 pages
...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...Future, howe'er pleasant ! Let the dead Past bury its dead ! Act, — act in the living Present ! Heart within, and God o'erhead ! Lives of great men... | |
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