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
sweet sky earth
Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, / The bridal of the earth and sky...
needs want shepherds
The God of love my shepherd is, And he that doth me feed: While he is mine, and I am his, What can I want or need?
hair fiction stairs
Who says that fictions only and false hair Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty? Is all good structure in a winding stair?
dog lying fleas
He that lies with the dogs, riseth with fleas.
gold locks
Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold.
wisdom night done
Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
wisdom bark bites
His bark is worse than his bite.
mean solitude use
In solitude, be a multitude to thyself. Tibullus by all means use sometimes to be alone.
fear
Grasp not at much, for fear thou losest all.
enemy too-much
One enemy is too much.
running heart hands
Enrich my heart, mouth, hands in me, With faith, with hope, with charity, That I may run, rise, rest with Thee.
garden
The market is the best garden.
brave soul misery
Never was a miser a brave soul.
love heart good-heart
A good heart cannot lye