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
drew dust guilty love soul
Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back / Guilty of dust and sin.
money love-of-money love-of-learning
The love of money and the love of learning rarely meet.
husband lovers
A poore beauty finds more lovers then husbands.
death long god-love
Those that God loves, do not live long.
love faith clean
Ah my deare God! though I am clean forgot, Let me not love thee, if I love thee not.
bird nests love-bird
The bird loves her nest.
taken stranger fear-of-love
Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers.
love-is prison no-love
No love is foule, nor prison fair.
love-is price-of-love
Love is the true price of love.
love-is found
Love is not found in the market.
love valentines-day valentines-day
Love and a cough cannot be hid.
love heart easy
A gentle heart is tied with an easy thread.
love heart gentle
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
love heart good-heart
A good heart cannot lye