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
love faith clean
Ah my deare God! though I am clean forgot, Let me not love thee, if I love thee not.
beauty flames light
True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame But borrowed thence to light us thither. Beauty and beauteous words should go together.
kings spring loss
I envy no man's nightingale or spring; Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme, Who plainly say, My God, My King.
flames wind poetry
As flames do work and wind when they ascend, So did I weave myself into the sense.
long poetry sweetness
How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense.
years snow aging
A snow year, a rich year.
life pairs windmills
You cannot make a windmill go with a pair of bellows.
art dirty men
Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe, Whence cam'st thou, that thou art so fresh and fine? I know thy parentage is base and low: Man found thee poor and dirty in a mine.
sweet giving soul
Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timbered, never gives; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives.
enemy victory may
Pursue not a victory too far. He hath conquered well that hath made his enemy fly; thou mayest beat him to a desperate resistance, which may ruin thee.
wise brave valor
A sad, wise valor is the brave complexion.
success mean sky
Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.
art home speak
If any speak ill of thee, fly home to thy own conscience and examine thy heart. If thou art guilty, it is a just correction; if not guilty, it is a fair instruction.
broken pot whole
Your pot broken seemes better then my whole one.