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
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.
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.
men want woe
The cholerick man never wants woe.
children fire heard
The child saies nothing, but what it heard by the fire.
garden building
The charges of building and making of gardens are unknowne.
body
The body is more drest then the soule.
blind
The blind eate many a flie. [The blind eat many a fly.]