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
wings
It is better to have wings then hornes.
It's better to be head of a Lyzard, then the tayle of a Lyon.
long
Long jesting was never good.
long
Long jesting was never good.
Never was strumpet faire.
Never was strumpet faire.
fortunate
The perswasion of the fortunate swaies the doubtfull.
There come nought out of the sacke but what was there.
Vertue never growes old.
We are fooles one to another.
wisdom half
Pleasing ware is half sold.
writing
After so many deaths I live and write;
feet
Better a bare foote then none.
running mean years
By no means run in debt: take thine own measure, Who cannot live on twenty pound a year, Cannot on forty.