Share
×
Inspirational Quotes
Authors
Professions
Topics
Tags
Quote
When I forget that the stars shine in air-- When I forget that beauty is in stars-- When I forget that love with beauty is-- Will I forget thee: till then all things else.
Philip James Bailey
Share
Change background
T
T
T
Change font
Original
TAGS & TOPICS
Philip James Bailey
Age: 86 †
Born: 1816
Born: April 22
Died: 1902
Died: September 6
Author
Poet
Writer
P. J. Bailey
Else
Shine
Things
Till
Love
Shining
Thee
Air
Beauty
Stars
Forget
Forgetfulness
More quotes by Philip James Bailey
The course of Nature seems a course of Death, And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
Philip James Bailey
Men might be better if we better deemed of them.
Philip James Bailey
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.
Philip James Bailey
True faith nor biddeth nor abideth form, The bended knee, the eye uplift is all Which men need render all which God can bear. What to the faith are forms? A passing speck, A crow upon the sky.
Philip James Bailey
Prayer is the spirit speaking truth to Truth.
Philip James Bailey
Fine thoughts are wealth, for the right use of which Men are and ought to be accountable,-- If not to Thee, to those they influence.
Philip James Bailey
Evil then results from imperfection.
Philip James Bailey
Music tells no truths.
Philip James Bailey
Every believer is God's miracle.
Philip James Bailey
The goodness of the heart is shown in deeds Of peacefulness and kindness. Hand and heart Are one thing with the good, as thou should'st be. Do my words trouble thee? then treasure them, Pain overgot gives peace, as death doth Heaven. All things that speak of Heaven speak of peace.
Philip James Bailey
For ivy climbs the crumbling hall To decorate decay.
Philip James Bailey
Hell is more bearable than nothingness.
Philip James Bailey
The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.
Philip James Bailey
I cannot love as I have loved, And yet I know not why It is the one great woe of life To feel all feeling die.
Philip James Bailey
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
One thought settles a life, an immortality.
Philip James Bailey
America, thou half-brother of the world with something good and bad of every land.
Philip James Bailey
The sole equality on earth is death.
Philip James Bailey
The worst men often give the best advice. Our deeds are sometimes better than our thoughts.
Philip James Bailey
For as nightingales do upon glow-worms feed, So poets live upon the living light.
Philip James Bailey
