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
hands stones smooth
A rugged stone growes smooth from hand to hand.
children cows rich
A poore mans Cow dies a rich mans child.
husband lovers
A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
long enough pleasure
A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.
mother
A pittifull mother makes a scald head.
enough
A pittifull looke askes enough.
pennies
A penny spar'd is twice got.
noble plant
A noble plant suites not with a stubborne ground.
rivers neighbour
A mountaine and a river are good neighbours.
masters servant straws
A master of straw eates a servant of steele.
feet giving philanthropy
To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes. [To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.]
law rooms action
Who sweeps a room, as for Thy laws, makes that and the action fine.
husband wife gentleness
In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse. [In the husband wisdom, in the wife gentleness.]
sports heart gambling
Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart; Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore.