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
art god nature
Art is man's nature; nature is God's art.
god soul earth
O, there is naught on earth worth being known but God and our own souls!
evil hell bearable
Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
sorrow
Ah, nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow.
hands evil left
Evil and good are God's right hand and left.
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.
soul may chance
How slight a chance may raise or sink a soul!
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.
fate thank-god bears
Fulfill thy fate! Be-do-bear-and thank God.
joy skins skin-deep
And these are joys, like beauty, but skin deep.
simple way world
The worst way to improve the world is to condemn it.