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
wenches young heed
Take heed of a young wench, a prophetesse, and a Lattin bred woman.
mother names steps
Take heed of a step-mother; the very name of her sufficeth.
widows married thrice
Take heed of a person marked, and a Widdow thrice married. [Take heed of a person marked, and a widow thrice married.]
sweet night day-and-night
Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights. [Sweet discourse makes short days and nights.]
offering saint
Such a Saint, such an offering.
stills
Still fisheth he that catcheth one.
body states periods
States have their conversions and periods as well as naturall bodies.
eye spy ears
Spies are the ears and eyes of Princes.
spectacles
Spectacles are deaths Harquebuze. [Spectacles are death's arquebuse.]
men tables dead-man
Speake not of a dead man at the table.
silent
Speake fitly, or be silent wisely.
summer chimneys
Souldiers in peace are like chimneys in summer.
men opinion plant
Some men plant an opinion they seem to erradicate.
church altars conscience
Some make a conscience of spitting in the Church, yet robbe the Altar.