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
long sides lasts
Curtesie on one side only lasts not long.
lasts young
The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts not.
morning lasts
The morning Sunne never lasts a day.
firsts frost lasts
The first and last frosts are the worst.
church lasts
Nothing lasts but the Church.
lasts ends particular
Love without end, hath no end, says the Spaniard: (meaning, if it were not begun on particular ends, it would last).
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.
course deal great kuwait means victimized
Kuwait has come forward... And this means a great deal to the American people. It will mean a lot to our government. And of course if will mean a lot to the families' victimized by this hurricane.