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
needs shoulders broads
Quick believers need broad shoulders.
mirth needs sin
When thou dost tell another's jest, therein Omit the oaths, which true wit cannot need; Pick out of tales the mirth, but not the sin.
needs pounds poor
He that needs five thousand pound to live, Is full as poor as he that needs but five.
enemy no-friends needs
Trust no friend with that you need fear him if he were your enemy.
long needs world
There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse.
needs body
The soule needs few things, the body many.
tongue needs speak
The effect speakes, the tongue needes not. [The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.]
house needs would-be
He that would be well, needs not goe from his owne house. [He that would be well needs not go from his own house.]
men clothes needs
Nothing wears clothes, but Man; nothing doth need But he to wear them.
needs want shepherds
The God of love my shepherd is, And he that doth me feed: While he is mine, and I am his, What can I want or need?
age example needs
We live in an age that hath more need of good example than precepts.
book gains needs
He that gains well and spends well needs no count book.
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.