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
love life-is without-love
Life is less than nothing without love.
life wise-love stores
Love spends his all, and still hath store.
death life-death another-life
Death is another life.
rose lips music-life
Music lives within thy lips Like a nightingale in roses.
life wise-love should
Could I love less, I should be happier now.
life gratitude heart
We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not figures on a dial. We should count time by heart throbs. He most lives who thinks most, feels the noblest, acts the best.
love life fashion
Ask not of me, love, what is love? Ask what is good of God above; Ask of the great sun what is light; Ask what is darkness of the night; Ask sin of what may be forgiven; Ask what is happiness of heaven; Ask what is folly of the crowd; Ask what is fashion of the shroud; Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss; Ask of thyself what beauty is.
life woe-unto woe-is-me
I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why; It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
life serious life-is
Life is as serious a thing as death.
life long age
It matters not how long we live but how.
life mean ends
Life's but a means unto an end, that end, Beginning, mean, and end to all things--God.
life life-death awe
Life hath more awe than death.
love-is sea poet
A poet not in love is out at sea; He must have a lay-figure.
pride looks flood
When pride thaws, look for floods.