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
apes tails higher
The higher the Ape goes, the more he shewes his taile. [The higher the ape goes, the more he shows his tail.]
eye heart letters
The hearts letter is read in the eyes.
men giving sick
The healthfull man can give counsell to the sick.
giving hard
The hard gives more then he that hath nothing.
heard hinges
The groundsell speakes not save what it heard at the hinges.
doors steps
The greatest step is that out of doores. [The greatest step is that out of doors.]
littles
The great would have none great and the little all little.
littles
The great put the little on the hooke.
world
The gowne is his that we ares it, and the world his that enjoyes it.
mother giving good-mother
The good mother sayes not, Will you? but gives.
The goate must browse where she is tyed.
fingers wit
The Germans wit is in his fingers.
gentle
The gentle Hawke halfe mans her selfe.
foxes grapes ripe
The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not ripe.