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
men hands may
Whatever is made by the hand of man, by the hand of man may be overturned.
What your glasse telles you, will not be told by Councell.
giving one-day
What one day gives us, another takes away from us. [What one day gives, another takes away from us.]
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.