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A Song Of Life. by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. In the rapture of life and of living, I lift up my head and rejoice, And I thank the great Giver for giving. The soul of my gladness a voice. In the glow of the glorious weather, In the sweet-scented, sensuous air, My burdens seem light as a feather.
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
A Psalm of Life. By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. What The Heart Of The Young Man Said To The Psalmist. 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!
A Song of Life. By Mary Ruefle. Source: Poetry (December 2016) This Poem Appears In. Read Issue. Previous in Issue Next in Issue. Poems, readings, poetry news and the entire 110-year archive of POETRY magazine.
A Psalm of Life Lyrics 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.
- I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume, For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you. I loafe and invite my soul,
- Houses and rooms are full of perfumes, the shelves are crowded with perfumes, I breathe the fragrance myself and know it and like it, The distillation would intoxicate me also, but I shall not let it.
- I have heard what the talkers were talking, the talk of the beginning and the end, But I do not talk of the beginning or the end. There was never any more inception than there is now,
- Trippers and askers surround me, People I meet, the effect upon me of my early life or the ward and city I live in, or the nation, The latest dates, discoveries, inventions, societies, authors old and new,
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A Psalm of Life is a didactic poem written by one of the most celebrated poets, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. The poem was first published in 1838 in the New York Magazine and this poem is also referred to as “A Song of Life.”
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