Philip James Bailey Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• The sole equality on earth is death.

  Philip James Bailey

  Equality, Earth, Sole

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.110

• Night comes, world-jewelled, . . . The stars rush forth in myriads as to wage War with the lines of Darkness; and the moon, Pale ghost of Night, comes haunting the cold earth After the sun's red sea-death--quietless.

  Philip James Bailey

  Stars, War, Moon

  Philip James Bailey (1860). “Festus: A Poem”, p.466

• 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

  Prayer, Heart, Foundation

  Philip James Bailey, “Festus - X”

• Star canto: star speaks light, and world to world
  Repeats the passage of the universe
  To God; the name of Christ--the one great word
  Well worth all languages in earth or heaven.

  Philip James Bailey

  Stars, Light, Names

• 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.

  Philip James Bailey

  God, Dear Lord, Soul

  Philip James Bailey (1845). “Festus: A Poem”, p.406

• O, there is naught on earth worth being known but God and our own souls!

  Philip James Bailey

  God, Soul, Earth

  Philip James Bailey (1857). “Festus: a poem”, p.164

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