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
hands long tongue
A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]
long waiting rope
He puls with a long rope, that waits for anothers death.
horse race long
Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
long sides lasts
Curtesie on one side only lasts not long.
bees longing idle
Bee not idle and you shall not bee longing.
long enough pleasure
A pleasure long expected is deare enough sold.
light long burden
Light burdens, long borne, grow heavy.
death long god-love
Those that God loves, do not live long.
long poetry sweetness
How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense.
long
They talke of Christmas so long, that it comes.
long needs world
There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse.
war long enemy
The War is not don so long as my Enemy lives. [The war is not done so long as my enemy lives.]
dirty long foul
Take heed of foul dirty wayes, and long sicknesse.
vintage long
Short boughs, long vintage.