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
wine old-friends provision
Old wine, and an old friend, are good provisions.
praise dies
Old praise dies, unlesse you feede it. [Old praise dies unless you feed it.]
men young old-man
Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death. [Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]
men young old-man
Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.
skins camels young
Old Camels carry young Camels skins to the Market.
speak ill
Of him that speakes ill, consider the life more then the word. [Of him that speaks ill, consider the life more than the word.]
Of faire things, the Autumne is faire.
pigs tails
Of a pigs taile you can never make a good shaft. [Of a pig's tail you can never make a good shaft.]
bondage
Of a new Prince, new bondage.
littles little-things
Of a little thing a little displeaseth.
secure
Nothing secure unlesse suspected.
church lasts
Nothing lasts but the Church.
Nothing is to be presumed on, or despaired of.
Nothing dries sooner then a teare.