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
olives call-me
Call me not an olive, till thou see me gathered.
mice
The Catt sees not the mouse ever.
legs
Every one stretcheth his legges according to his coverlet. [Every one stretches his legs according to his coverlet.]
midst divided
Feares are divided in the midst.
fists wedges
He is a foole that makes a wedge of his fist.
trust-in-god
He that sowes trusts in God.
spaniards
He that trusts much Obliges much, says the Spaniard.
tongue strikes
Hee that strikes with his tongue, must ward with his head.
heirs holes mice
I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire. [I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heir.]
lame retreat
In a retreat the lame are formost. [In a retreat the lame are foremost.]
wings
It is better to have wings then hornes.
mice
It's a bold mouse that nestles in the catts eare.
tongue dry hundred
One paire of eares drawes dry an hundred tongues.
inheritance
Service is no Inheritance.