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It is sad
To see the light of beauty wane away,
Know eyes are dimming, bosoms shrivelling, feet
Losing their springs, and limbs their lily roundness;
But it is worse to feel the heart-spring gone,
To lose hope, care not for the coming thing,
And feel all things go to decay within us.

Philip James Bailey

Blest is he whose heart is the home of the great dead and their great thoughts.

Philip James Bailey

Men might be better if we better deemed
Of them. The worst way to improve the world
Is to condemn it.

Philip James Bailey

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths,
And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.

Philip James Bailey

Sorrow is a stone that crushes a single bearer to the ground, while two are able to carry it with ease.

Philip James Bailey

Long, glorious locks, which drop upon thy cheek like gold-hued cloud-flakes on the rosy morn.

Philip James Bailey

Philip James Bailey

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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