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
humble heart humble-heart
My favoured temple is an humble heart.
prayer heart earth
Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.
night tears gone
Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at night, When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.
snow lips peeping
Lips like rosebuds peeping out of snow.
beautiful sunset bed
The death-bed of a day, how beautiful!
heaven shields azure
See the sun! God's crest upon His azure shield, the Heavens.
sunshine gold green
See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss.
appreciation fool speak
He is a fool who is not for love and beauty. I speak unto the young, for I am of them and always shall be.
lying flower men
Look on the bee upon the wing 'mong flowers; How brave, how bright his life! then mark, him hiv'd, Cramp'd, cringing in his self-built, social cell, Thus it is in the world-hive; most where men Lie deep in cities as in drifts.
stars sky scripture
What are ye orbs? The words of God? the Scriptures of the skies?
perfect whole
None but God can fill the perfect whole.
memorial-day military animal
Man is a military animal, glories in gunpowder, and loves parade.
brother land america
America, thou half-brother of the world; with something good and bad of every land.
heaven imperfection perfection-and-imperfection
Where imperfection ceaseth, heaven begins.