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
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.
war good-war
He that makes a good war makes a good peace.
bird tree wish
I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree; For sure then I should grow To fruit or shade: at least some bird would trust Her household to me, and I should be just.
grief soul sorrow
Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.
clothes cold
God sends cold according to clothes.
sheep wind giving
To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure.
sweet eye roots
Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is even in the grave, And thou must die.
dog looks musk
Look not for musk in a dog's kennel.
art house
My house, my house, though thou art small, Thou art to me the Escurial.
lying blessing men
When God at first made man, Having a glass of blessings standing by, 'Let us,'said he,'pour on him all we can: Let the world's riches, which disperse' d lie, Contract into a span'.