George Herbert

Abusiveness

Pick out mirth, like stones out of thy ground, Profaneness, filthiness, abusiveness.

Angry

Sweet rose, whose hue, angry and brave.

Bane

Money, thou bane of bliss, and source of woe.

Bare

When once thy foot enters the church, be bare.

Bate

When baseness is exalted, do not bate The place its honor for the person's sake.

Bridal

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright, The bridal of the earth and sky.

Burnish

My thoughts began to burnish, sprout, and swell.

Canker

A tithe purloined cankers the whole estate.

Carp

And at my actions carp or catch.

Chalk

Let a bleak paleness chalk the door.

Close

But now thou dost thyself immure and close In some one corner of a feeble heart.

Consort

Lord, place me in thy consort.

Curl

Curling with metaphors a plain intention.

Decay

Perhaps my God, though he be far before, May turn, and take me by the hand, and more -- May strengthen my decays.

Disband

When both rocks and all things shall disband.

Discourtesy

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

Ditty

Beasts fain would sing; birds ditty to their notes.

Ease

Usefulness comes by labor, wit by ease.

Entwine

Thy glorious household stuff did me entwine.

Fist

Who grasp the earth and heaven with my fist.

Fix

O, fix thy chair of grace, that all my powers May also fix their reverence.

Flat

Sin is flat opposite to the Almighty.

Forego

Stay at the third cup, or forego the place.

Get

Thou hast got the face of man.

groan

Nothing but holy, pure, and clear, Or that which groaneth to be so.

Indite

Wounded I sing, tormented I indite.

Initiatory

Some initiatory treatises in the law.

Losing

Who strive to sit out losing hands are lost.

Ope

On Sunday heaven's gate stands ope.

Pant

Then shall our hearts pant thee.

Play

First Peace and Silence all disputes control, Then Order plays the soul.

Puff

Then came brave Glory puffing by.

Quest

Gad not abroad at every quest and call Of an untrained hope or passion.

Quick

Man is no star, but a quick coal Of mortal fire.

Quickness

Touch it with thy celestial quickness.

Refuse

The cunning workman never doth refuse The meanest tool that he may chance to use.

Rhyme

Hearken to a verser, who may chance Rhyme thee to good.

Roost

O, let me where thy roof my soul hath hid, O, let me roost and nestle there.

Shake

The great soldier's honor was composed Of thicker stuff, which could endure a shake.

Shoot

These preachers make His head to shoot and ache.

Simper

Yet can I mark how stars above Simper and shine.

Skill

I can not skill of these thy ways.

What skills it, if a bag of stones or gold About thy neck do drown thee?

Spend

I . . . am never loath To spend my judgment.

Stem

While I do pray, learn here thy stem And true descent.

Tack

And tacks the center to the sphere.

Thankful

Ladies, look here; this is the thankful glass That mends the looker's eyes; this is the well That washes what it shows.

Toss

Whom devils fly, thus is he tossed of men.

True

Dare to be true: nothing can need a lie.

Unfold

Unfold thy forehead gathered into frowns.

Utmost

Betwixt two thieves I spend my utmost breath.

Vie

And vying malice with my gentleness, Pick quarrels with their only happiness.

Vogue

One vogue, one vein, One air of thoughts usurps my brain.

Wide

How wide is all this long pretense !

Wink

And yet, as though he knew it not, His knowledge winks, and lets his humors reign.

Worm

When debates and fretting jealousy Did worm and work within you more and more, Your color faded.