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
light tables armour
Armour is light at table.
cost bread
Anothers bread costs deare.
An upbraided morsell never choaked any.
taken men tongue
An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.
rapper old-man
An old mans staffe is the rapper of deaths doore.
house old-friends
An old friend is a new house.
sports cat prey
An old cat sports not with her prey.
bees made oath
An oath that is not to bee made is not to be kept.
names ill wounds
An ill wound is cured, not an ill name.
ill labourers
An ill labourer quarrells with his tooles.
ill honour
An ill deede cannot bring honour.
agreement judgement judgment
An ill agreement is better then a good judgement. [An ill agreement is better than a good judgment.]
age youth needy
An Idle youth, a needy Age.
idle
An idle head is a boxe for the winde.