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
night contemplating
He that contemplates hath a day without night.
night fairs
A blustering night, a faire day. [A blustering night, a fair day.]
prayer night two
Who goes to bed, and doth not pray, Maketh two nights to every day!
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.
night great-night
To a great night, a great Lanthorne.
morning night law
The Law is not the same at morning and at night.
sweet night day-and-night
Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights. [Sweet discourse makes short days and nights.]
night praise ends
Praise day at night, and life at the end.
trust night ice
Trust not one night's ice.
mother night express-yourself
Night is the mother of counsels.
prayer night keys
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
wisdom night done
Sum up at night what thou hast done by day.
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.