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
sweet bees
Every bees hony is sweet.
sweet building
Building is a sweet impoverishing.
sweet way pleasure
I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it.
sweet eye roots
Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is even in the grave, And thou must die.
long poetry sweetness
How wide is all this long pretense! There is in love a sweetness ready penned, Copy out only that, and save expense.
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.
sweet mouths bitter
Who hath bitter in his mouth, spits not all sweet.
sweet bees honey
The honey is sweet, but the Bee stings.
sweet wine sweet-wine
Take heede of the viniger of sweet wine.
sweet night day-and-night
Sweet discourse makes short daies and nights. [Sweet discourse makes short days and nights.]
sweet lying spring
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses, a box where sweets compacted lie.
song sweet heart
Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till it get wing, and flie away with Thee.
sweet giving soul
Only a sweet and virtuous soul, like seasoned timber, never gives.
sweet sky earth
Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, / The bridal of the earth and sky...