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
snow water pounds
Whether you boyle snow or pound it, you can have but water of it.
labour
Whether shall the Oxe goe, where he shall not labour?
Whether goest, griefe? where I am wont.
chimneys
Where you thinke there is bacon, there is no Chimney.
honour
Where there is no honour, there is no griefe.
house
When you enter into a house, leave the anger ever at the doore.
hammers strikes poor-richard
When you are an Anvill, hold you still; when you are a hammer, strike your fill.
tree hatchet fallen
When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet. [When the tree is fallen, all go with their hatchet.]
prayer done ready
When prayers are done, my Lady is ready.
all-things
When one is on horsebacke hee knowes all things.
house
When my house burnes, it's not good playing at Chesse.
thieves honest thunder
When it thunders, the theefe becomes honest. [When it thunders, the thief becomes honest.]
gods-will
When God will, no winde but brings raine.
understanding firsts gods-will
When God will punish, hee will first take away the understanding.