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
eyes hundred seller
The buyer needs a hundred eyes, the seller not one.
eye bees loses
He that hath but one eye, must bee afraid to lose it. [He that hath but one eye must be afraid to lose it.]
eye bees elbows
Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.
eye ears discreet
Discreet women have neither eyes nor eares. [Discreet women have neither eyes nor ears.]
sweet eye roots
Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is even in the grave, And thou must die.
eye his-eyes may
Who hath none to still him, may weepe out his eyes. [Who hath none to still him, may weep out his eyes.]
eye
Warre and Physicke are governed by the eye.
eye kites too-much
To whirle the eyes too much shewes a Kites braine.
horse eye masters
The masters eye fattens the horse, and his foote the ground.
eye eagles wings
The ignorant hath an Eagles wings, and an Owles eyes. [The ignorant hath an eagle's wings and an owl's eyes.]
eye heart letters
The hearts letter is read in the eyes.
eye
The eye will have his part.
eye bigger belly
The eye is bigger then the belly. [The eye is bigger than the belly.]
eye
The eye and Religion can beare no jesting.