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
ease paine
Great paines quickly find ease.
pain cruelty ifs
Cruelty is more cruell, if we defer the pain.
pain joy deeds
If thou do ill, the joy fades, not the pains. If well, the pain doth fade, the joy remains.
care paine loses
Paines to get, care to keep, feare to lose.
fighting looks painting
On painting and fighting looke aloofe. [On painting and fighting look aloof.]
doe paine
It's more paine to doe nothing then something.
pain wine body
Shall I, to please another wine-sprung minde, Lose all mine own? God hath giv'n me a measure Short of His can and body; must I find A pain in that, wherein he finds a pleasure?
lions fierce paint
The lion is not so fierce as they paint him.
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.
delight sacrifice sermon turn verse
A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice