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
fine-words fine ill
Fine words dresse ill deedes.
house fine dressings
Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores.
fine
Every thing new is fine.
dog fields fine
Dogs are fine in the field.
littles fine ill
To fine folkes a little ill finely wrapt.
house fine folks
The house is a fine house, when good folks are within.
fine
Hee that makes a thing too fine, breakes it.
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.