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
firsts prettiness dies
Prettiness dies first.
sticks youth
Presse a stick, and it seemes a youth.
taken stranger fear-of-love
Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers.
prayer men journey
Prayers and provender hinder no journey. [Prayers and provender hinder no man's journey.]
too-much fickle praise
Praise none too much, for all are fickle.
night praise ends
Praise day at night, and life at the end.
hills praise
Praise a hill, but keepe below.
court grows
Power seldome grows old at Court.
home play
Play with a foole at home, and he will play with you in the market.
Perversnes makes one squint ey'd.
men young young-man
Pension never inriched young man. [Pension never enriched a young man.]
Parsons are soules waggoners.
revenge pardon slander
Pardons and pleasantnesse are great revenges of slanders.
pardon thyself
Pardon all but thy selfe. [Pardon all but thyself.]