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
war advice advise
Advise none to marry or go to war.
ayurveda digestion good-digestion
A good digestion turneth all to health.
sacrifice may delight
A verse may find him whom a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice...
men clothes sight
O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde; And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd With his desires!
running flower men
Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done, As fair as ever and as fit to use; So both the flower doth stay and honey run.
law draws cables
Good cable, to enforce and draw, And be thy law, While thou didst wink and wouldst not see.
grief snow may
Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing.
Could have recovered greenness?
writing
After so many deaths I live and write;
stars blood land
Church bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood, The land of spices; something understood.
angel sunday thinking
Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, 'T is angels' music.
men clothes needs
Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth need But he to wear them.
heart men soul
God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,
men heaven ordinary
Exalted Manna, gladness of the best, Heaven in ordinary, man well drest,