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
hands long tongue
A long tongue is a signe of a short hand. [A long tongue is a sign of a short hand.]
tongue dozen foolish
Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.
tongue language grate
Faire language grates not the tongue.
taken men tongue
An Oxe is taken by the horns, and a Man by the tongue.
teeth tongue
The tongue walkes where the teeth speede not.
cost tongue
The tongue talkes at the heads cost.
cutting tongue steel
The tongue is not steele, yet it cuts. [The tongue is not steel yet it cuts.]
tongue quills
The thought hath good leggs, and the quill a good tongue.
tongue needs speak
The effect speakes, the tongue needes not. [The effect speaks, the tongue needs not.]
tongue dry hundred
One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.
tongue strikes
Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.
feet tongue slips
Better the feet slip then the tongue.
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.