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
punishment
The Wolfe must dye in his owne skinne.
letting-go prosperity
Prosperity lets goe the bridle.
ocean sea land
Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
dust flesh mortality
That flesh is but the glasse, which holds the dust That measures all our time; which also shall Be crumbled into dust.
lying world
Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.
lying thee
Shew me a lyer, and I'le shew thee a theefe.
witty laughter ignorance
Laugh not too much; the witty man laughs least: For wit is news only to ignorance. Lesse at thine own things laugh; lest in the jest Thy person share, and the conceit advance.
killing galen supper
By suppers more have been killed than Galen ever cured
pain wine body
Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
hearing
Who is so deafe, as he that will not hear?
health healthy bed
Hee that goes to bed thirsty riseth healthy.
greatness deep-water ships
A great ship asks deep water.
gold
That is gold which is worth gold.
smell fire may
Well may hee smell fire, whose gowne burnes.