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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.
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Who can mistake great thoughts? They seize upon the mind; arrest and search and shake it; bow the tall soul as by wind; rush over it like rivers over reeds.
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Thy talk is the sweet extract of all speech,
And holds mine ear in blissful slavery.
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Stars which stand as thick as dew-drops on the field of heaven.
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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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Thou art a woman,
And that is saying the best and worst of thee.
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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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Joys
Are bubble-like — what makes them,
Bursts them too.
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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 love as I have loved,
And yet I know not why;
It is the one great woe of life
To feel all feeling die.
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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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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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The sun, God's crest upon His azure shield, the heavens.
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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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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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Could we but think with the intensity we love with, we might do great things.
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I run the gauntlet of a file of doubts,
Each one of which down hurls me to the ground.
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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.
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Soul of the world, divine Necessity,
Servant of God, and master of all things.
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Why Mammon sits before a million hearths
Where God is bolted out from every house.
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While men are what they are; while they have bad
Passions to be roused up: while ruled by men;
While all the powers and treasures of a land
At beck of the ambitious, wrongs may be
Offered, with insult; yea, while rights are worth
Maintaining; freedom keeping, or life having,
So long dread I, the sword shall shine.
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Dreams are rudiments
Of the great state to come. We dream what is
About to happen.
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Ask not of me, love, what is love?
Ask what is good of God above;
Ask of the great sun what is light;
Ask what is darkness of the night;
Ask sin of what may be forgiven;
Ask what is happiness of heaven;
Ask what is folly of the crowd;
Ask what is fashion of the shroud;
Ask what is sweetness of thy kiss;
Ask of thyself what beauty is.
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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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Blessings star forth forever; but a curse is like a cloud, it passes.
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Autumn burned brightly, a running flame through the mountains, a torch flung to the trees.
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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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