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.
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).
laziness ends
Better never begin than never make an end.
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
good hundred mother worth
One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.