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
land way
Good land, evill way.
bees
Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended.
Good is the mora that makes all sure.
carrie
Good is god, but better carries it.
horse miles good-horse
Good horses make short miles.
Good & quickly seldome meete.
parent masters
God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
sea rivers hands
God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.
house prison
God keepe me from foure houses, an Vsurers, a Taverne, a Spittle, and a Prison.
ends
God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
wrath giving weight
God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy.
fitting
God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.
bells
God comes to see without a bell.
men giving poor
Giving much to the poore, doth inrich a mans store. [Giving much to the poor doth increase a man's store.]