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
morning bees may
Good newes may bee told at any time, but ill in the morning.
morning rain journey
For a morning raine leave not your journey. [For a morning rain leave not your journey.]
morning evening
Evening words are not like to morning.
morning night soul
Summe up at night what thou hast done by day; And in the morning what thou hast to do. Dresse and undresse thy soul; mark the decay And growth of it; if, with thy watch, that too Be down then winde up both; since we shall be Most surely judg'd, make thy accounts agree.
morning lasts
The morning Sunne never lasts a day.
morning night law
The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
morning evening frost
The evening praises the day, and the morning a frost.
country morning sun
In every countrey the sun rises in the morning. [In every country the sun rises in the morning.]
morning children latin
A morning sunne, and a wine-bred child, and a latin-bred woman, seldome end well.
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.