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
taste bait feels
The escaped mouse ever feeles the taste of the bait. [The escaped mouse ever feels the taste of the bait.]
tongue needs speak
The effect speakes, the tongue needes not. [The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.]
dog ashes meals
The dog that licks ashes, trust not with meale. [The dog that licks ashes trust not with meal.]
dog bones
The dog gnawes the bone because he cannot swallow it.
men void
The Divell never assailes a man, except he find him either void of knowledge, or of the fear of God.
The Devill is not alwaies at one doore.
young
The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.
The dainties of the great are the teares of the poore.
crow
The crow bewailes the sheepe, and then eates it.
men self snow
The corne hides it self in the snow, as an old man in furrs.
deities benefits arguing
The constancy of the benefit of the yeere in their seasons argues a Deity.
command
The command of custome is great.
comforter
The comforters head never akes.
The Chollerick drinkes, the Melancholick eats, the Flegmatick sleepes.