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
not-alone
Hast comes not alone.
fists wedges
He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
quitting wells
He quits his place well, that leaves his friend there.
praise enough lord
Lord! who hath praise enough?
bridges february march
February makes a bridge and March breakes it. [February makes a bridge, and March breaks it.]
honesty men giving
Who is the honest man? He that doth still and strongly good pursue To God, his neighbor, and himself most true: Whom neither force nor fawning can Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due.
kings years void
Who eates the Kings Goose uoydes the feathers an hundred years after. [Who eats the king's goose voids the feathers a hundred years after.]
bees
A dead Bee maketh no Hony.
masters scholar paid
A diligent Scholer, and the Master's paid. [A diligent scholar, and the master's paid.]
purses bottles drunkards
A drunkards purse is a bottle.
whole-life honour whole
A faire death honours the whole life.
throat flatterer
A flatterers throat is an open Sepulcher.
purses bargains picks
A good bargaine is a pick-purse. [A good bargain is a pick-purse.]
life-death
He that feares death lives not.