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
play fancy toys
If that thy fame with ev'ry toy be pos'd, 'Tis a thin web, which poysonous fancies make; But the great souldier's honour was compos'd Of thicker stuf, which would endure a shake. Wisdom picks friends; civility plays the rest; A toy shunn'd cleanly passeth with the best.
pain joy deeds
If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.
may holy peril
Avoid,Profaneness; come not here: Nothing but holy, pure, and clear, Or that which groaneth to be so, May at his peril further go.
veins slides kind
He that is drunken * * * Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill Did with his liquor slide into his veins.
wind carrie feathers
Words and feathers the wind carries away.
prayer praying ends
Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching.
death long god-love
Those that God loves, do not live long.
truth
All truths are not to be told.
helping toothache
Music helps not the toothache.
sweet way pleasure
I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it.
heart broken tears
A broken Altar, Lord, thy servant rears, Made of a heart, and cemented with tears.
pot boiling
To a boiling pot flies come not.
prayer night two
Who goes to bed, and doth not pray, Maketh two nights to every day!
cows horns
God sends a curst cow short horns.