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Dew-drops, 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.
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It is no great misfortune to oblige ungrateful people, but an unsupportable one to be forced to be under an obligation to a scoundrel.
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O, there is naught on earth worth being known but God and our own souls!
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Why Mammon sits before a million hearths
Where God is bolted out from every house.
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Lowliness is the basis of every virtue; and he who goes the lowest builds the safest.
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I cannot be content with less than heaven;
Living, and comprehensive of all life.
Thee, universal heaven, celestial all;
Thee, sacred seat of intellective time;
Field of the soul's best wisdom: home of truth,
Star-throned.
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Walk
Boldly and wisely in that light thou hast —
There is a hand above will help thee on.
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Blest is he whose heart is the home of the great dead and their great thoughts.
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Poetry is itself a thing of God;
He made his prophets poets; and the more
We feel of poesie do we become
Like God in love and power, — undermakers.
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Thy talk is the sweet extract of all speech,
And holds mine ear in blissful slavery.
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Joys
Are bubble-like — what makes them,
Bursts them too.
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The wind breathes not, and the wave
Walks softly as above a grave.
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The first and worst of all frauds is to cheat one's self. All sin is easy after that.
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I love night more than day — she is so lovely;
But I love night the most because she brings
My love to me in dreams which scarcely lie.
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The poet's pen is the true divining rod
Which trembles towards the inner founts of feeling;
Bringing to light and use, else hid from all,
The many sweet clear sources which we have
Of good and beauty in our own deep bosoms;
And marks the variations of all mind
As does the needle.
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Not a single path
Of thought I tread, but that it leads to God.
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Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us.
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The sun, centre and sire of light,
The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.
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She spake,
And his love-wilder'd and idolatrous soul
Clung to the airy music of her words,
Like a bird on a bough, high swaying in the wind.
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Death is the universal salt of states;. Blood is the base of all things — law and war.
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Thou wind?
Which art the unseen similitude of God
The Spirit, His most meet and mightiest sign.
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Poets are all who love, who feel great truths,
And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
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Man is one; and he hath one great heart. It is thus we feel, with a gigantic throb athwart the sea, each other's rights and wrongs; thus are we men.
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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.
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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.
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This book, conceived in sorrow, composed in grief, and constructed at the brink of despair, contains my mind's best thoughts, and my soul's triumph over the powers of darkness.
Isaac Mayer Wise
Philip James Bailey
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Born:
April 22, 1816
Died:
November 6, 1902
(aged 86)
Bio:
Philip James Bailey was an English Spasmodic poet, best known as the author of Festus.
Known for:
Festus
The Mystic And Other Poems (1855)
The Angel World And Other Poems (1850)
Universal Hymn (1867)
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