Philip James Bailey

Poems (4)

• Death in Youth

  From “Festus” / FOR to die young is youth’s divinest gift; …

• I loved her for that she was beautiful

  I loved her for that she was beautiful; / And that to me she seem'd to be all Nature, …

• The Poet of Nature

  From “Festus” / HE had no times of study, and no place; …

• Youth and Love

  From “Festus” / SAY gray-beards what they please, …