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
wife pins
He that takes not up a pin, slights his wife.
horse wife made
Chuse a horse made, and a wife to make.
husband wife gentleness
In the husband wisedome, in the wife gentlenesse. [In the husband wisdom, in the wife gentleness.]
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.
keys wife house
The wife is the key of the house.
wife married
Hee that tells his wife newes is but newly married.
children wife want
Hee that hath a wife and children wants not businesse.
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.
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.