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
secret servant
He that tells a secret is anothers servant. [He that tells a secret is another's servant.]
masters servant masters-and-servants
Everyone is a master and servant.
servant
Chuse none for thy servant who have served thy betters.
masters servant straws
A master of straw eates a servant of steele.
servant
The slothful is the servant of the counters.
eye masters servant
One eye of the masters sees more, then ten of the servants. [One eye of the master sees more than ten of the servants']
sleepy masters servant
A sleepy master makes his servant a Lowt.
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.