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
giving restoring
Giving is dead, restoring very sicke.
giving
Give loosers leave to talke.
Gifts enter every where without a wimble.
riches ancient gentility
Gentility is nothing but Ancient Riches.
horse race long
Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
wine men laughing
Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.
men littles
From a chollerick man withdraw a little; from him that saies nothing, for ever. [From a choleric man withdraw a little; from him that says nothing, for ever.]
frenzy
Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
cutting france thrice
France is a meddow that cuts thrice a yeere.
mother steps fortune
Fortune to one is Mother, to another is Step-mother.
bird sowing
Forbeare not sowing because of birds.
hands land washing
For washing his hands, none sels his lands.
men subjects
For the same man to be an heretick and a good subject, is incompossible.
morning rain journey
For a morning raine leave not your journey. [For a morning rain leave not your journey.]