🔵 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life Henry Longfellow - Analysis Reading Henry Longfellow

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Psalm of Life Henry Longfellow - Analysis Reading Explanation - A Psalm of Life Henry Longfellow
1807-1882
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 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
Funeral marches to the grave.
In the world’s broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife! A Psalm of Life
Trust 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 remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;-
Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o’er life’s solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.
Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labor and to wait.
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Thank you so much for this lesson of life .I am just spell bound .🙏

[@annamariagrosso5857]

Good morning Sir Thank you so much I'm deeply touched by your thoughts and words Grazie

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So nice of you

[@manisco5098]

A great one. Thank you Sir a lot.

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Great work my teacher 🌺🌺 God bless you

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It's my pleasure

[@manjirabanerjee7169]

Do I revere this poem.🙏 Longfellow is like a prophet here preaching and inculcating us with a positive attitude towards life notwithstanding its vicissitudes and losses. My favourite parts are: 'Act--act in the living present ! Heart within ,and God o'erhead'. How splendidly the poet interweaves earthly life and spiritualism herein !! 'Tempus fugit ;Carpe diem .' should be our motto of life.