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
dies
He that lives most dies most.
giving suffering dies
He that gives all before hee dies provides to suffer.
skins dies
The wolf must die in his own skin.
knows dies
Wee know not who lives or dies.
firsts prettiness dies
Prettiness dies first.
praise dies
Old praise dies, unlesse you feede it. [Old praise dies unless you feed it.]
desire quitting dies
Hee begins to die, that quits his desires.
life dies
Let all live as they would die.
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.
calendars
Death keeps no calendar.
hath
He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.
eyes hundred seller
The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
delight sacrifice sermon turn verse
A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice