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
electricity all-things
Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.
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.
men might ifs
Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
kindness needs may
Kindness is wisdom. There is none in life But needs it and may learn.
joy skins skin-deep
And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
ivy crumbling decay
For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
hero masters valet
As the master so the valet.
hate wrath sin
Hell is the wrath of God--His hate of sin.
war greatness two
Burn to be great, Pay not thy praise to lofty things alone. The plains are everlasting as the hills, The bard cannot have two pursuits; aught else Comes on the mind with the like shock as though Two worlds had gone to war, and met in air.
heart fate
The heart is its own Fate.
country heart england
England! my country, great and free! Heart of the world, I leap to thee!
sweet stars joy
The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.