George Herbert
George Herbert
George Herbertwas a Welsh poet, orator and Anglican priest. Herbert's poetry is associated with the writings of the metaphysical poets, and he is recognized as "a pivotal figure: enormously popular, deeply and broadly influential, and arguably the most skilful and important British devotional lyricist."...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth3 April 1593
friends salt
Before you make a friend, eate a bushell of salt with him. [Before you make a friend, eat a bushel of salt with him.]
bridges february march
February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.]
giving saint economy
Give not S. Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing. [Give not Saint Peter so much, to leave Saint Paul nothing.]
bells bears handsomeness
In cloths cheap handsomeness, doth bear the bell.
business ill
Ill ware is never cheape. [Ill ware is never cheap.]
beauty oxen
Beauty drawes more then oxen.
bait adore fishes
The fish adores the bait.
dark names secret
The dark grave, which knows all secrets, can alone reclaim the fatal doubt once cast on a woman's name.
clothes mind body
Let thy mind's sweetness have its operation upon thy body, clothes, and habitation.
judging treasure want
Judge not the preacher; for he is thy judge: If thou mislike him, thou conceiv'st him not. God calleth preaching folly. Do not grudge To pick out treasures from an earthen pot. The worst speak something good. If all want sense, God takes a text, and preaches patience.
praise enough lord
Lord! who hath praise enough?
poverty sin
Poverty is no sinne. [Poverty is no sin.]
laughter laughing
Least at thine own things laugh.
christian easter moors
The Jewes spend at Easter, the Moors at marriages, the Christians in sutes.