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
knows
Ever since we weare cloathes, we know not one another.
shoes knows
Only the wearer knows where the shoe pinches.
money knows
Would you know what money is, go borrow some.
wine knows
You cannot know wine by the barrell.
weight burden knows
None knows the weight of another's burden.
knows
Yeeres know more then bookes.
favour knows
Without favour none will know you, and with it you will not know your selfe.
accounts knows
Who must account for himselfe and others, must know both.
knows dies
Wee know not who lives or dies.
salute knows
They that know one another salute a farre off.
rich knows
The Rich knowes not who is his friend. [The rich knows not who is his friend.]
doubt knows
He that knows nothing doubts nothing.
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.