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
water buckets quench
Good words quench more then a bucket of water.
water silence still-waters
Take heede of still waters, the quick passe away.
horse water wife
Who letts his wife goe to every feast, and his horse drinke at every water, shall neither have good wife nor good horse.
snow water pounds
Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.
fire water soldier
Water, fire, and souldiers, quickly make roome. [Water, fire, and soldiers quickly make room.]
water
Water trotted is as good as oates.
fire water
Water a farre off quencheth not fire.
water snow bread
Vnder water, famine; under snow, bread.
water cold cold-water
The scalded head feares cold water.
fire water ships
Ships feare fire more then water. [Ships fear fire more than water.]
water
Let none say, I will not drinke water.
greatness deep-water ships
A great ship asks deep water.
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.