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
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.
jest loses
Some had rather lose their friend then their Jest.
hate evil hatred
Some evils are cured by contempt.
owing
Sleepe without supping, and wake without owing.
dry tempest slander
Slander is a shipwrack by a dry Tempest.
bees
Sinnes are not knowne till they bee acted.
fire satin chimneys
Silkes and Satins put out the fire in the chimney.