Question: what is the meaning of tell me not in mournful numbers?
Answer: 1 Answers. Jayanta Kumar Maity Staff answered 3 years ago. Mournful means sad and sorrowful, and numbers means tunes or songs. The speaker here asks others not to sing sad and pessimistic songs about life's uselessness when he says “Tell me not in mournful numbers, / Life is but an empty dream”.