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Poetry is itself a thing of God He made his prophets poets and the more We feel of poesie do we become Like God in love and power,-under-makers.

Philip James Bailey

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Philip James Bailey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 22
Died: 1902
Died: September 6
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P. J. Bailey
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Any heart turned Godward feels more joyIn one short hour of prayer, than e'er was raisedBy all the feasts of earth since its foundation.
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The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
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Dear Lord, our God and Saviour! for Thy gifts The world were poor in thanks, though every soul Were to do nought but breathe them, every blade Of grass, and every atomie of earth To utter it like dew.
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Death, thou art infinite it is life is little.
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The value of a thought cannot be told.
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Evil then results from imperfection.
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A poet not in love is out at sea He must have a lay-figure.
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The wind breathes not, and the wave Walks softly as above a grave.
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One thought settles a life, an immortality.
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The heart is its own Fate.
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Grief hallows hearts, even while it ages heads.
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Write to the mind and heart, and let the ear Glean after what it can.
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The ground of all great thoughts is sadness.
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