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
drew dust guilty love soul
Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back / Guilty of dust and sin.
grief soul sorrow
Sorrow was all my soul; I scarce believed, Till grief did tell me roundly, that I lived.
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.
sad soul welcome
Love bade me welcome, but my soul drew back.
sweet giving soul
Only a sweet and virtuous soul, Like season'd timbered, never gives; But though the whole world turn to coal, Then chiefly lives.
wind soul affliction
Corn is cleaned with wind, and the Soul with chastening
heart men soul
God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,
sweet giving soul
Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
hymns soul lines
The fineness which a hymn or psalm affords / If when the soul unto the lines accords.
brave soul misery
Never was a miser a brave soul.
mean solitude soul
By all means use some time to be alone, salute thyself, see what thy soul doth wear.
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.