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
hands gold lost
Who shuts his hand has lost his gold, Who opens it hath it twice told.
hands gold sticks
Gold thou mayst safely touch; but if it stick Unto thy hands, it woundeth to the quick.
gold
Who will make a doore of gold must knock a naile every day.
gold
The ballance distinguisheth not betweene gold and lead.
gold ifs
If gold knew what gold is, gold would get gold I wis.
gold thrive labour
Hee that labours and thrives spins gold.
gold
That is gold which is worth gold.
gold locks
Gold opens all locks, no lock will hold against the power of gold.
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