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
dine
Hee that dines and leaves, layes the cloth twice.
demand foolish
Hee that demands misseth not, unlesse his demands be foolish.
hens
Hee that comes of a hen must scrape.
hard
Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
eye dust his-eyes
Hee that blowes in the dust fills his eyes with it.
hands cures
Hee that bewailes himselfe hath the cure in his hands.
not-sure slips
Hee stands not surely, that never slips.
pay honey
Hee pays too deare for honey that licks it from thornes.
Hee looseth nothing, that looseth not God.
wells
Hee lookes not well to himselfe that lookes not ever.
want rich enough
Hee is rich enough that wants nothing.
Hee is not free that drawes his chaine.
thinking
Hee is a foole that thinks not that another thinks.
after-death
Hee hath not liv'd, that lives not after death.