George Herbert Quotes About Poetry

Quotes about: Poetry

• How wide is all this long pretense!
  There is in love a sweetness ready penned,
  Copy out only that, and save expense.

  George Herbert

  Long, Poetry, Sweetness

  George Herbert (1871). “The English poems of George Herbert, together with his collection of proverbs entitled Jacula prudentum”, p.103

• As flames do work and wind when they ascend,
  So did I weave myself into the sense.

  George Herbert

  Flames, Wind, Poetry

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.103

• 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

  Kings, Spring, Loss

  George Herbert, Christopher Harvey, George Gilfillan (1857). “The poetical works of George Herbert”, p.52

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