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
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.]
tongue dozen foolish
Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.
giving please
Fooles give to please all but their owne.
wise men together
Fooles bite one another, but wise-men agree together.
folly
Folly growes without watering.
horse
Flies are busiest about leane horses.
fine-words fine ill
Fine words dresse ill deedes.
house fine dressings
Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores.
midst divided
Feares are divided in the midst.
law
Feare, the Bedle of the Law.
Feare nothing but sinne.
garden
Feare keepes the garden better then the gardiner.
looks vineyards owners
Fear keepes and looks to the vineyard, and not the owner.