Philip James Bailey
Philip James Bailey
Philip James Baileywas an English Spasmodic poet, best known as the author of Festus...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth22 April 1816
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night forbidden-love silence
Mind and night will meet, though in silence, like forbidden lovers.
spring heart eye
It is sad To see the light of beauty wane away, Know eyes are dimming, bosoms shrivelling, feet Losing their springs, and limbs their lily roundness; But it is worse to feel the heart-spring gone, To lose hope, care not for the coming thing, And feel all things go to decay within us.
kindness needs may
Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
nature mean
Nature means Necessity.
nature seems courses
The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
spring self light
Corruption springs from light: 'tis one same power Creates, preserves, destroys; matter whereon It works, on e'er self-transmutative form, Common to now the living, now the dead.
motivational art simplicity
Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art.
ungrateful-people scoundrels obligation
It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.
love-is sea poet
A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.
night shadow
Wan night, the shadow goer, came stepping in.
electricity all-things
Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.
night lamps study
When night hath set her silver lamp high, Then is the time for study.
disappointment half endure
There is no disappointment we endure one-half so great as what we are to ourselves.
sympathy heart men
Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.