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
midst divided
Feares are divided in the midst.
house fine dressings
Fine dressing is a foule house swept before the doores.
fine-words fine ill
Fine words dresse ill deedes.
horse
Flies are busiest about leane horses.
folly
Folly growes without watering.
wise men together
Fooles bite one another, but wise-men agree together.
tongue dozen foolish
Foolish tongues talke by the dozen.
morning rain journey
For a morning raine leave not your journey. [For a morning rain leave not your journey.]
hands land washing
For washing his hands, none sels his lands.
bird sowing
Forbeare not sowing because of birds.
frenzy
Frenzy, Heresie, and Jealovsie, seldome cured.
wine men laughing
Gaming, women, and wine, while they laugh they make men pine.
horse race long
Gamsters and race-horses never last long.
riches ancient gentility
Gentility is nothing but Ancient Riches.