Festus – XLV (Philip James Bailey Poems)
'Twas held of old by some heresiarch sage,Whose nobler name time bruits not overmuch,That evil and good, twin powers, as ...
'Twas held of old by some heresiarch sage,Whose nobler name time bruits not overmuch,That evil and good, twin powers, as ...
A man in love sees wonders naturally.Ours sole,--abnormal gifts but gradual given,Can make participable his starry views,And intuitions spiritual instilled,May ...
From heaven, soul--like, to earth. It is sundown. MarkThe heart's state, empty and collapsed, the world'sVain pleasures leave us in, ...
In such timeAs it takes to turn a leaf, we are in heaven;Making our way among the wheeling worlds,Millions of ...
In one of earth'sHead cities, awaiting this, the effect unknown,Of evil, not, truly, all--wise, we towerlike rise;With eminent but indifferent ...
Not on one plane indeviable, the soulMakes way, but moonlike waveringly as thoughNot to advance for a time content; the ...
This time is equal to all time that's goneOf like extent, nor heeds to hide its faceBefore the future: each ...
Earth regained,And lone sea--shore where the great waves come inFrothed like a horse put to his heart--burst speed,Sobbing up--hill, note ...
Thence earthward tending, first we make the sun;Where, as at rest in light, a mediate point,A bright effect original of ...
Ill, now released,Reckless of late discomfiture, as headOf human strife 'gainst heaven, God's ends world--wide,Inapt to appreciate, as his woeful ...
Count not the ripples upon life's stream, our days;Nor eddying errors as a change misdeemOf current; mark thou wiselier, the ...
All man's acts,Serious or trivial, all man's thoughts perchancePass not unmarked of angel eye, or God's.We know in daytime there ...
Comes on a quarrel stormy and stern, if brief,'Tween the two foe friends, this demanding whatCannot be;--who immunity shall secure'Gainst ...
The eternal all--sire from his throne, our isleRegarding; these Imperial shores, the whileEarth's orb rolls round, shewn, eminent in his ...
On the Opening of the Castle as a Permanent Art Museum.Throw back the gates of time!See, on this rock sublime,The ...
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