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
praise enough lord
Lord! who hath praise enough?
long enough pleasure
A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.
enough
A pittifull looke askes enough.
abundance enough stewards
If I have enough for myself and family, I am steward only for myself; if I have more, I am but a steward of that abundance for others.
fathers-day son enough
One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one father.
soon-enough enough wells
We do it soon enough, if that we do be well.
enough wells
Hee that lives well is learned enough.
want rich enough
Hee is rich enough that wants nothing.
wise men enough
Hee commands enough that obeyes a wise man.
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.