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
life wise-love stores
Love spends his all, and still hath store.
wise pain suffering
Youth might be wise; we suffer less from pains than pleasures.
wise ignorance errors
The truth is perilous never to the true, Nor knowledge to the wise; and to the fool, And to the false, error and truth alike, Error is worse than ignorance.
life wise-love should
Could I love less, I should be happier now.
love life-is without-love
Life is less than nothing without love.
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.
dream states happens
Dreams are rudiments Of the great state to come. We dream what is About to happen.
eye tired looks
I am tired of looking on what is, One might as well see beauty never more, As look upon it with an empty eye. I would this world were over. I am tired.
ignorance errors
Error is worse than ignorance.
faith uplifting eye
True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift; is all Which men need render; all which God can bear. What to the faith are forms? A passing speck, A crow upon the sky.
stars air shining
When I forget that the stars shine in air-- When I forget that beauty is in stars-- When I forget that love with beauty is-- Will I forget thee: till then all things else.
future lifts shrouds
Oh, could we lift the future's sable shroud.
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.