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
heart hands
Happier are the hands compast with yron, then a heart with thoughts.
heart desire
A small heart hath small desires.
sports heart gambling
Play not for gain, but sport. Who plays for more Than he can lose with pleasure, stakes his heart; Perhaps his wife's too, and whom she hath bore.
heart broken tears
A broken Altar, Lord, thy servant rears, Made of a heart, and cemented with tears.
easter heart dust
Rise, heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing His praise Without delays, Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise With Him mayst rise: That, as His death calcined thee to dust, His life may make thee gold, and, much more, just.
song sweet heart
Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till it get wing, and flie away with Thee.
heart saws would-be
Surely if each one saw another's heart, There would be no commerce, No sale or bargain pass: all would disperse And live apart.
heart men soul
God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,
love heart gentle
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
lying heart men
Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.
running heart hands
Enrich my heart, mouth, hands in me, With faith, with hope, with charity, That I may run, rise, rest with Thee.
love heart good-heart
A good heart cannot lye
heart
Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart could have recovered greenness?
heart
Who hath no head, needes no heart.