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
lying thee
Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe.
witty laughter ignorance
Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.
killing galen supper
By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured
pain wine body
Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
hearing
Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear?
health healthy bed
Hee that goes to bed thirsty riseth healthy.
greatness deep-water ships
A great ship asks deep water.
gold
That is gold which is worth gold.
smell fire may
Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.
feet
Better a bare foote then none.
distance greatness envy
Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
morning children latin
A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well.
apples eating
He pares his apple that will cleanly feed.
song sweet heart
Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till it get wing, and flie away with Thee.