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
wisdom half
Pleasing ware is half sold.
wisdom bark bites
His bark is worse than his bite.
mean solitude use
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
fear
Grasp not at much, for fear thou losest all.
enemy too-much
One enemy is too much.
running heart hands
Enrich my heart, mouth, hands in me, With faith, with hope, with charity, That I may run, rise, rest with Thee.
garden
The market is the best garden.
brave soul misery
Never was a miser a brave soul.
love heart good-heart
A good heart cannot lye
god wrath path
Throw away thy rod, throw away thy wrath; O my God, take the gentle path.
mean doors house
By all means use sometimes to be alone. Salute thyself: see what thy soul doth wear. Dare to look in thy chest; for 'Tis thine own: And tumble up and down what thou findst there. Who cannot rest till he good fellows find, he breaks up house, turns out of doors his mind.
death war dying
War is death's feast.
grief mines
Was ever grief like mine?
grief physicians lawyer
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.