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
prayer purses masters
A good prayer is master of anothers purse.
prayer praying ends
Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Praying's the end of preaching.
prayer night two
Who goes to bed, and doth not pray, Maketh two nights to every day!
prayer done ready
When prayers are done, my Lady is ready.
prayer men journey
Prayers and provender hinder no journey. [Prayers and provender hinder no man's journey.]
prayer night keys
Prayer should be the key of the day and the lock of the night.
prayer ocean sea
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
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
good hundred mother worth
One good mother is worth a hundred schoolmasters.