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
grief nor pot quarrel thirst
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrel to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot
grief soul sorrow
Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.
grief snow may
Grief melts away Like snow in May, As if there were no such cold thing.
grief mines
Was ever grief like mine?
grief physicians lawyer
Go not for every grief to the physician, nor for every quarrell to the lawyer, nor for every thirst to the pot.
grief house folly
If folly were griefe every house would weepe. [If folly were grief, every house would weep.]
dog vain bark
An old dog barks not in vain.
calendars
Death keeps no calendar.
drew dust guilty love soul
Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back / Guilty of dust and sin.
course deal great kuwait means victimized
Kuwait has come forward... And this means a great deal to the American people. It will mean a lot to our government. And of course if will mean a lot to the families' victimized by this hurricane.
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.
thinking
He that thinks amiss, concludes worse.
war giving
He that will not have peace, God gives him warre. [He that will not have peace, God gives him war.]