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
heart hands
Happier are the hands compast with yron, then a heart with thoughts.
song sweet heart
Listen, sweet Dove, unto my song, And spread thy golden wings in me; Hatching my tender heart so long, Till it get wing, and flie away with Thee.
heart saws would-be
Surely if each one saw another's heart, There would be no commerce, No sale or bargain pass: all would disperse And live apart.
heart men soul
God's breath in man returning to his birth, The soul in paraphrase, heart in pilgrimage,
love heart gentle
Love makes all hard hearts gentle.
lying heart men
Lie not, neither to thyself, nor man, nor God. Let mouth and heart be one; beat and speak together, and make both felt in action. It is for cowards to lie.
running heart hands
Enrich my heart, mouth, hands in me, With faith, with hope, with charity, That I may run, rise, rest with Thee.
heart
Who would have thought my shrivel'd heart could have recovered greenness?
heart
Who hath no head, needes no heart.
heart men laughing
We Batchelors laugh and shew our teeth, but you married men laugh till your hearts ake.
heart men mercenary
Vertue flies from the heart of a Mercenary man.
eye heart letters
The hearts letter is read in the eyes.
heart long long-day
Not a long day, but a good heart rids worke.
humble heart humble-heart
Humble Hearts have humble desires.