George Herbert - Sweet Quotes

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Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,
The bridal of the earth and sky,
The dew shall weep thy fall to-night;
For thou must die.

George Herbert

Only a sweet and virtuous soul,
Like seasoned timber, never gives;
But though the whole world turn to coal,
Then chiefly lives.

George Herbert

I got me flowers to strew Thy way;
I got me boughs off many a tree:
But Thou wast up by break of day,
And brought'st Thy sweets along with Thee.

George Herbert

Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie.

George Herbert

Love is that liquor sweet and most divine,
Which my God feels as blood; but I, as wine.

George Herbert

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.

George Herbert

I know the ways of Pleasure, the sweet strains, The lullings and the relishes of it.

George Herbert

Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave, Bids the rash gazer wipe his eye, Thy root is even in the grave, And thou must die.

George Herbert