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
stones bruises fingers
Who remove stones, bruise their fingers.
saint blame peter
Who praiseth Saint Peter, doth not blame Saint Paul.
doe cures
Who paies the Physitian, does the cure.
accounts knows
Who must account for himselfe and others, must know both.
likes bread
Who likes not the drinke, God deprives him of bread.
horse water wife
Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.
eye his-eyes may
Who hath none to still him, may weepe out his eyes. [Who hath none to still him, may weep out his eyes.]
dog bread
Who hath no more bread then neede, must not keepe a dog.
heart
Who hath no head, needes no heart.
valleys
Who hath no hast in his businesse, mountaines to him seeme valleys.
sweet mouths bitter
Who hath bitter in his mouth, spits not all sweet.
dog men mates
Who hath a Wolfe for his mate, needes a Dog for his man.
Who hastens a glutton choakes him.
giving deny
Who gives to all, denies all.