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
drink wit
Where the drink goes in, there the wit goes out.
sweet giving soul
Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
men might hours
There is an hour wherein a man might be happy all his life, could he find it.
lions fierce paint
The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.
lying heart men
Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.
men deeds
Words are women, deeds are men.
men world
Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
hymns soul lines
The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords / If when the soul unto the lines accords.
sweet sky earth
Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, / The bridal of the earth and sky...
needs want shepherds
The God of love my shepherd is, And he that doth me feed: While he is mine, and I am his, What can I want or need?
hair fiction stairs
Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? Is all good structure in a winding stair?
dog lying fleas
He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas.
gold locks
Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold.
wisdom night done
Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.