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
bread
Every day brings his bread with it.
two bread estates
Estate in two parishes is bread in two wallets.
home bread dry
Dry bread at home is better then rost meate abroad.
cost bread
Anothers bread costs deare.
bread
All griefes with bread are lesse.
likes bread
Who likes not the drinke, God deprives him of bread.
dog bread
Who hath no more bread then neede, must not keepe a dog.
water snow bread
Vnder water, famine; under snow, bread.
men bread spaniards
Threatned men eat bread, says the Spaniard.
white bread neighbour
I had rather aske of my sire browne bread, then borrow of my neighbour white.
smell bread taste
Of the smells, bread; of the tastes, salt.
smell bread taste
Of all smells, bread; of all tastes, salt.
drew dust guilty love soul
Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back / Guilty of dust and sin.
dog vain bark
An old dog barks not in vain.