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
world
He that deales in the world needes foure seeves.
lying half world
Half the world knows not how the other half lies.
world bones crutches
Were it not for the bone in the legge, all the world would turne Carpenters (to make them crutches).
world this-world
This world is nothing except it tend to another.
long needs world
There needs a long time to know the worlds pulse.
world
The world is now adayes, God save the Conquerour.
world
The gowne is his that we ares it, and the world his that enjoyes it.
world wheels fortune
Not only ought fortune to be pictured on a wheel, but every thing else in this world.
swim world bottom
In the world who knowes not to swimme, goes to the bottome. [In the world, who knows not to swim goes to the bottom.]
bees ease world
If you would bee at ease, all the world is not.
lying world
Halfe the world knowes not how the other halfe lies.
men world
Man is one world, and hath / Another to attend him.
earth world wells
Do well and right and let the world sink.
drew dust guilty love soul
Love bade me welcome; yet my soul drew back / Guilty of dust and sin.