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"Life is a businesse, not good cheer;
Ever in warres.
The sunne still shineth there or here,
Whereas the starres
Watch an advantage to appeare."
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. Employment (l. 16-20). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books. |
"Light, joy, and leisure; but shall they persever?
Echo Ever."
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. Heaven (l. 19-20). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books. |
"Thou Echo, thou art mortal, all men know."
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. Heaven (l. 3). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books. |
""How wide is all this long pretense!
There is in love a sweetness ready penned,
Copy out only that, and save expense.""
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. Jordan (l. 19-20). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books. |
"I often blotted what I had begun:
This was not quick enough, and that was dead."
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. Jordan (l. 19-20). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books. |
"As flames do work and wind when they ascend,
So did I weave myself into the sense."
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. Jordan (l. 19-20). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books. |
"When first my lines of heavenly joys made mention,
Such was their luster, they did so excel,
That I sought out quaint words and trim invention;
My thoughts began to burnish, sprout, and swell,
Curling with metaphors a plain intention,
Decking the sense as if it were to sell."
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. Jordan (l. 19-20). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books. |
"Who says that fictions only and false hair
Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?"
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. Jordan (l. 19-20). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books. |
"I envy no man's nightingale or spring;
Nor let them punish me with loss of rhyme,
Who plainly say, My God, My King."
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. Jordan (l. 19-20). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books. |
"Must all be veiled, while he that reads, divines,
Catching the sense at two removes?"
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. Jordan (l. 19-20). . .
The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Books. |
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