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
hurt tree plant
The tree that God plants, no winde hurts it.
people ease teeth
The tooth-ach is more ease then to deale with ill people.
teeth tongue
The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.
cost tongue
The tongue talkes at the heads cost.
cutting tongue steel
The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
thread
The thread breakes, where it is weakest.
tongue quills
The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.
The thorne comes forth with the point forwards.
tables
The table robbes more then a thiefe.
needs body
The soule needs few things, the body many.
servant
The slothful is the servant of the counters.
men singing shops
The singing man keepes his shop in his throate.
men sight force
The sight of a man hath the force of a Lyon.
water cold cold-water
The scalded head feares cold water.