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.
heart
Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart could have recovered greenness?
heart
Who hath no head, needes no heart.
heart men laughing
We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake.
heart men mercenary
Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.
eye heart letters
The hearts letter is read in the eyes.
heart long long-day
Not a long day, but a good heart rids worke.
humble heart humble-heart
Humble Hearts have humble desires.
disappointment heart faces
God sees hearts as we see faces.
love heart easy
A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.