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
young grows
When all sinnes grow old, coveteousnesse is young.
lasts young
The ofspring of those that are very young, or very old, lasts not.
young
The death of a young wolfe doth never come too soon.
wenches young heed
Take heed of a young wench, a prophetesse, and a Lattin bred woman.
men young young-man
Pension never inriched young man. [Pension never enriched a young man.]
men young old-man
Old men, when they scorne young, make much of death. [Old men, when they scorn young, make much of death.]
men young old-man
Old men go to Death, Death comes to Young men.
skins camels young
Old Camels carry young Camels skins to the Market.
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.
delight sacrifice sermon turn verse
A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice