Philip James Bailey - Light Quotes

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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.

Philip James Bailey
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
The sun, centre and sire of light,
The keystone of the world-built arch of heaven.

Philip James Bailey
Star unto star speaks light, and world to world
Repeats the passage of the universe
To God; the name of Christ — the one great word
Well worth all languages in earth or heaven.

Philip James Bailey
Walk
Boldly and wisely in that light thou hast —
There is a hand above will help thee on.

Philip James Bailey
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.

Philip James Bailey
For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.

Philip James Bailey
Tis light translateth night; 'tis inspiration Expounds experience; 'tis the west explains The east; 'tis time unfolds Eternity.

Philip James Bailey