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
tree shade
Great trees are good for nothing but shade.
strokes
Great strokes make not sweete musick.
ease paine
Great paines quickly find ease.
fortune misfortunes
Great Fortune brings with it Great misfortune.
grows
Great deservers grow Intolerable presumers.
littles great-business
Great businesses turne on a little pinne.
giving
Great almes-giving lessens no mans living.
gossip frogs
Gossips are frogs, they drinke and talke.
enjoy goods
Goods are theirs that enjoy them.
rich good-work
Good workemen are seldome rich.
water buckets quench
Good words quench more then a bucket of water.
swimmer length
Good swimmers at length are drowned.
good-service
Good service is a great inchantment.
morning bees may
Good newes may bee told at any time, but ill in the morning.