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
dark clouds dark-clouds
No day so clear but hath dark clouds.
men desire church
No Church-yard is so handsom, that a man would desire straight to bee buried there. [No churchyard is so handsome that a man would desire straight to be buried there.]
perfection barbers
No barber shaves so close but another finds worke.
saving
No Alchymy to saving.
Never was strumpet faire.
ill
Never had ill workeman good tooles.
action praise turns
Neither praise nor dispraise thy selfe, thy actins serve the turne. [Neither praise nor dispraise thyself; thy actions serve the turn.]
eye hands letters
Neither eyes on letters, nor hands in coffers.
bribe
Neither bribe nor loose thy right.
teeth helping
Musick helps not the tooth-ach.
traveller
Much spends the traveller, more then the abider.
silence speech
More have repented speech then silence. [More have repented speech than silence.]
Mony refused looseth its brightnesse.
modesty honour
Modesty sets off one newly come to honour.