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 ...
The soul--state, intermediate 'twixt earth's lifeAnd the world future, unconceived till seen,We search with curious awe; mark dormant death;Nor, joyless, ...
From heaven, soul--like, to earth. It is sundown. MarkThe heart's state, empty and collapsed, the world'sVain pleasures leave us in, ...
As in our sky sometimes a vaporous massLow down, shows thunder threatening; while by windsOf happier, if adverse wing fanned, ...
Even while a starMight twinkle twice, or calm, retiring sea,Irresolute yet to leave, his moonlit kissShimmering repeat upon the impassive ...
In such timeAs it takes to turn a leaf, we are in heaven;Making our way among the wheeling worlds,Millions of ...
Our nextAdventure seems to promise fair, for be thereOne scene, in life whence evil may be ruledAbsent, 'tis sure pure ...
In one of earth'sHead cities, awaiting this, the effect unknown,Of evil, not, truly, all--wise, we towerlike rise;With eminent but indifferent ...
Millennial earth, transfigured to a star,The rebegotten world, see, born again;Good, universal order, peace and joy.Fruits of the new creation, ...
Now sets the youth out for joy, the city of joy,Whose walls illuminated with all--hued spheresBeacon the immense of life. ...
Charged by the spirit e'er upwards ripening, manAnd evil, his mightier minister, invadePeaceful, that sacred sphere, the queen of heaven,Whose ...
God only can heal the bruised spirit, and yieldPeace. By the overthrown altar of a fane,Foundation shattered, which from faith ...
This time is equal to all time that's goneOf like extent, nor heeds to hide its faceBefore the future: each ...
Follows a starry nightWhere in the talk of man and spirit we seeForeproven, the all--grasping mind's inordinate loveFor marvels, mysteries, ...
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 ...
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 ...
Our first, our last, by heavenly fates impelled;We again meet; warned by the Spirit progressive, learn,Not man's design, mere compromise ...
Man's final doom conceive: the award to allEarth's tribes of souls by spirits elect, their chiefsSaintly, themselves through purifying ruleOf ...
On the Opening of the Castle as a Permanent Art Museum.Throw back the gates of time!See, on this rock sublime,The ...
Who shall commemorate all Thy chosen namesThou who art Sire at once and Son of man?Servant, friend, brother, bridegroom, husband, ...
THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD is the wisdom of man- This is the end of Being, wisdom; this Of wisdom, action; and of ...
Deep in earth's caverned heart, I see her now--The Nemesis of Nations. Stern she sitsHer monumental throne. The hush of ...
Through pain and through peril, temptation and harm,We are saved by His love, for the Lord lent His arm;By the ...
As in a'round wide view from some tall hill,Central and isolate, it happeneth oftThe furthest things on all sides eyeableAre ...
MY FATHER! unto thee to whom I oweAll that I am, all that I have and can;Who madest me in ...
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