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
clothes years endurance
Mend your clothes and you may hold out this year.
guests conversation miscellaneous
A civil guest Will no more talk all, than eat all the feast.
thinking think-twice bargains
On a good bargain think twice.
war advice advise
Advise none to marry or go to war.
ayurveda digestion good-digestion
A good digestion turneth all to health.
sacrifice may delight
A verse may find him whom a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice...
men clothes sight
O what a sight were Man, if his attires Did alter with his minde; And like a dolphins skinne, his clothes combin'd With his desires!
running flower men
Bees work for man, and yet they never bruise Their Master's flower, but leave it having done, As fair as ever and as fit to use; So both the flower doth stay and honey run.
law draws cables
Good cable, to enforce and draw, And be thy law, While thou didst wink and wouldst not see.
grief snow may
Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing.
Could have recovered greenness?
stars blood land
Church bells beyond the stars heard, the soul's blood, The land of spices; something understood.
angel sunday thinking
Sundays observe; think when the bells do chime, 'T is angels' music.
men clothes needs
Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth need But he to wear them.