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
whole-life honour whole
A faire death honours the whole life.
ill honour
An ill deede cannot bring honour.
honour
Where there is no honour, there is no griefe.
honour
We cannot come to honour under Coverlet.
profit honour
No profit to honour, no honour to Religion.
modesty honour
Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.
lying profit honour
Honour and profit lie not in one sacke. [Honour and profit lie not in one sack.]
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.