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
riches ancient gentility
Gentility is nothing but Ancient Riches.
bells
God comes to see without a bell.
fitting
God complaines not, but doth what is fitting.
wrath giving weight
God gives his wrath by weight, and without weight his mercy.
ends
God is at the end, when we thinke he is furthest off it.
house prison
God keepe me from foure houses, an Vsurers, a Taverne, a Spittle, and a Prison.
sea rivers hands
God strikes not with both hands, for to the sea he made heavens, and to rivers foords.
parent masters
God, and Parents, and our Master, can never be requited.
horse miles good-horse
Good horses make short miles.
carrie
Good is god, but better carries it.
bees
Good is to bee sought out, and evill attended.
land way
Good land, evill way.
morning bees may
Good newes may bee told at any time, but ill in the morning.
good-service
Good service is a great inchantment.