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
wells
He that looseth is Marchant as well as he that gaines.
wells
He that lives well sees a farre off.
seven-years sorrow wells
He that lives not well one yeare, sorrowes seven after. [He that lives not well one year sorrows seven years after.]
dies
He that lives most dies most.
giving
He that lends, gives.
He that is warme, thinkes all so.
winter frost firsts
He that is surprized with the first frost feeles it all the winter after.
He that is once borne, once must dy.
danger
He that is not in the warres is not out of danger.
counsellors
He that is his owne Counsellor knowes nothing sure but what hee hath laid out.
helping fallen
He that is fallen cannot helpe him that is downe. [He that is fallen cannot help him that is down.]
rude angry
He that is angry at a feast is rude.
He that hopes not for good, feares not evill.
looks repent
He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he repents himself of time.