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 ...
Philip James Bailey Poems on Man (32 Poems)
Festus – VII (Philip James Bailey Poems)
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 ...
Festus – XLII (Philip James Bailey Poems)
The soul--state, intermediate 'twixt earth's lifeAnd the world future, unconceived till seen,We search with curious awe; mark dormant death;Nor, joyless, ...
Festus – II (Philip James Bailey Poems)
From heaven, soul--like, to earth. It is sundown. MarkThe heart's state, empty and collapsed, the world'sVain pleasures leave us in, ...
Festus – XXXIII (Philip James Bailey Poems)
As in our sky sometimes a vaporous massLow down, shows thunder threatening; while by windsOf happier, if adverse wing fanned, ...
Festus – XIV (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Even while a starMight twinkle twice, or calm, retiring sea,Irresolute yet to leave, his moonlit kissShimmering repeat upon the impassive ...
Festus – VI (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Our nextAdventure seems to promise fair, for be thereOne scene, in life whence evil may be ruledAbsent, 'tis sure pure ...
Festus – XIII (Philip James Bailey Poems)
In one of earth'sHead cities, awaiting this, the effect unknown,Of evil, not, truly, all--wise, we towerlike rise;With eminent but indifferent ...
Festus – XLI (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Millennial earth, transfigured to a star,The rebegotten world, see, born again;Good, universal order, peace and joy.Fruits of the new creation, ...
Festus – XXXVII (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Not on one plane indeviable, the soulMakes way, but moonlike waveringly as thoughNot to advance for a time content; the ...
Festus – XVI (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Charged by the spirit e'er upwards ripening, manAnd evil, his mightier minister, invadePeaceful, that sacred sphere, the queen of heaven,Whose ...
Festus – Proem (Philip James Bailey Poems)
This time is equal to all time that's goneOf like extent, nor heeds to hide its faceBefore the future: each ...
Festus – III (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Follows a starry nightWhere in the talk of man and spirit we seeForeproven, the all--grasping mind's inordinate loveFor marvels, mysteries, ...
Festus – XXXI (Philip James Bailey Poems)
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 ...
Festus – XXX (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Thence earthward tending, first we make the sun;Where, as at rest in light, a mediate point,A bright effect original of ...
Festus – XLIII (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Ill, now released,Reckless of late discomfiture, as headOf human strife 'gainst heaven, God's ends world--wide,Inapt to appreciate, as his woeful ...
Festus – XXVII (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Count not the ripples upon life's stream, our days;Nor eddying errors as a change misdeemOf current; mark thou wiselier, the ...
Festus – XII (Philip James Bailey Poems)
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 ...
Festus – VIII (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Comes on a quarrel stormy and stern, if brief,'Tween the two foe friends, this demanding whatCannot be;--who immunity shall secure'Gainst ...
Britian’s Cause (Philip James Bailey Poems)
The eternal all--sire from his throne, our isleRegarding; these Imperial shores, the whileEarth's orb rolls round, shewn, eminent in his ...
Festus – XLIV (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Man's final doom conceive: the award to allEarth's tribes of souls by spirits elect, their chiefsSaintly, themselves through purifying ruleOf ...
Nottingham Castle (Philip James Bailey Poems)
On the Opening of the Castle as a Permanent Art Museum.Throw back the gates of time!See, on this rock sublime,The ...
Hymn (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Who shall commemorate all Thy chosen namesThou who art Sire at once and Son of man?Servant, friend, brother, bridegroom, husband, ...
An Ancient Legend (Philip James Bailey Poems)
A stone stands in a rustic townWhich once the neighbouring hill did crown;Nigh to the house of God it layBefore ...
Knowledge (Philip James Bailey Poems)
THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD is the wisdom of man- This is the end of Being, wisdom; this Of wisdom, action; and of ...
The Nemesis Of Nations (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Deep in earth's caverned heart, I see her now--The Nemesis of Nations. Stern she sitsHer monumental throne. The hush of ...
Prayer (Philip James Bailey Poems)
Yea! even here as everywhere, let manWorship his Recreator, and the world'sMade perfect by preliminary fire.O Thou, who in the ...
A Fragment (II) (Philip James Bailey Poems)
As in a'round wide view from some tall hill,Central and isolate, it happeneth oftThe furthest things on all sides eyeableAre ...
London (Philip James Bailey Poems)
I love thee, London! for thy many men,And for thy mighty deeds and scenes of glory;For all great thoughts and ...
A Ruin (Philip James Bailey Poems)
In a cot--studded, fruity, green deep dale,There grows the ruin of an abbey old;And on the hill side, cut in ...