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
wretched hard
Tis hard to be wretched, but worse to be knowne so.
giving hard
The hard gives more then he that hath nothing.
eggs hard
It is very hard to shave an egge. [It is very hard to shave an egg.]
wise fool go-hard
If the wise erred not, it would goe hard with fooles. [If the wise erred not, it would go hard with fools.]
hard ripe
Hee that eats the hard shall eate the ripe.
hard
Hee that brings good newes knockes hard.
temples built hard
No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a Chappell hard by.
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.