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
foxes monk length
At Length the Fox turnes Monk.
taken foxes lions
Amiens was taken by the Fox, and retaken by the Lion.
running wings foxes
Though the Fox run, the chicken hath wings.
foxes grapes ripe
The Fox, when hee cannot reach the grapes, saies they are not ripe.
foxes
The Fox knowes much, but more he that catcheth him.
foxes deceiving
Hee that will deceive the fox, must rise betimes.
foxes girdles mates
Hee that hath a Fox for his mate, hath neede of a net at his girdle.
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.