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
night great-night
To a great night, a great Lanthorne.
men giving
To a gratefull man give mony when he askes.
treasurer
To a good spender God is the Treasurer.
window ready fairs
To a fair day open the window, but make you ready as to a foule.
men crafty
To a crafty man, a crafty and an halfe.
children weather cold
To a child all weather is cold.
wretched hard
Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.
two easier chimneys
Tis easier to build two chimneys, then to maintaine one.
thursday gone week
Thursday come, and the week's gone.
three
Three women make a market.
bears six three
Three helping one another, beare the burthen of sixe. [Three helping one another, bear the burden of six.]
two three ifs
Three can hold their peace, if two be away.
men bread spaniards
Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.
men church ill
Though you see a Church-man ill, yet continue in the Church still.