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
ends
God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
games ends
At the games end we shall see who gaines.
prayer praying ends
Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching.
laziness ends
Better never begin than never make an end.
littles may ends
We must recoile a little, to the end we may leap the better.
night praise ends
Praise day at night, and life at the end.
lasts ends particular
Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
dog vain bark
An old dog barks not in vain.
calendars
Death keeps no calendar.
drew dust guilty love soul
Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back / Guilty of dust and sin.
course deal great kuwait means victimized
Kuwait has come forward... And this means a great deal to the American people. It will mean a lot to our government. And of course if will mean a lot to the families' victimized by this hurricane.
grief nor pot quarrel thirst
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot
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.