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
sea suffering
He complaines wrongfully on the sea that twice suffers shipwrack.
sea rivers hands
God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.
land sea settling
Being on sea saile, being on land settle. [Being on sea, sail; being on land, settle.]
feet sea land
Wisedome hath one foot on Land, and another on Sea.
sea three court
There are three waies, the Vniversities, the Sea, the Court.
ocean sea land
Praise the Sea, but keepe on land.
prayer ocean sea
He that will learn to pray, let him go to sea.
spring may spring-season
Hee that is in a towne in May loseth his spring.
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