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
quitting wells
He quits his place well, that leaves his friend there.
long waiting rope
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
winning play wells
He plaies well that winnes. [He plays well that wins.]
He lives unsafely, that lookes too neere on things.
shining
He is onely bright that shines by himselfe.
littles
He is not poore that hath little, but he that desireth much.
book asks
He is a great Necromancer, for he asks counsel counsell of the Dead (i.e. books).
fists wedges
He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
He hath great neede of a foole, that plaies the foole himselfe.
sea suffering
He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.
wells carrie
He carries well, to whom it waighes not. [He carries well, to whomit weighs not.]
knives giving littles
He can give little to his servant, that lickes his knife. [He can give little to his servant that licks his knife.]
not-alone
Hast comes not alone.
bees reason heard
Harken to reason or shee will bee heard.