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
would-be
Were there no hearers, there would be no backbiters.
Were there no fooles, badd ware would not passe.
world bones crutches
Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches).
evil welcome ifs
Welcome evill, if thou commest alone. [Welcome evil, if thou comest alone.]
weight sells
Weight justly and sell dearely.
Weening is not measure.
done
Wee leave more to do when wee dye, then wee have done.
knows dies
Wee know not who lives or dies.
wealth
Wealth is like rheume, it falles on the weakest parts.
littles may ends
We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.
hate one-day
We must love, as looking one day to hate.
soon-enough enough wells
We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
honour
We cannot come to honour under Coverlet.
heart men laughing
We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake.