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
To him that will, waies are not wanting.
Vertue never growes old.
We are fooles one to another.
respect
He that respects not is not respected.
death war dying
War is death's feast.
garden
The market is the best garden.
wisdom half
Pleasing ware is half sold.
country cities chickens
The chicken is the country's, but the city eats it.
writing
After so many deaths I live and write;
Could have recovered greenness?
fear disease
Fear kills more than disease.
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.
A woman conceales what shee knowes not.