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George Herbert (1593 - 1633 / Montgomery / Wales)
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George Herbert was born to a noble family in Wales; his mother was patron to John Donne who dedicated his 'Holy Sonnets' to her. He was educated at We .. more >>
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  ''A servant with this clause
Makes drudgery divine:
Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws
Makes that and th' action fine.''
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet, clergyman. repr. In The Works of George Herbert, ed. Helen Gardner (1961). The Elixir, st. 5, The Temple (16...
 
  ''A man that looks on glass,
On it may stay his eye;
Or if he pleaseth, through it pass,
And then the heaven espy.''
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet, clergyman. repr. In The Works of George Herbert, ed. Helen Gardner (1961). The Elixir, The Temple (1633).
 
  ''These are thy wonders, Lord of love,
To make us see we are but flowers that glide.
Which when we once can finde and prove,
Thou hast a garden for us where to bide.''
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Flower (l. 43-46). . . The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin B...
 
  ''These are thy wonders, Lord of power,
Killing and quickning, bringing down to hell
And up to heaven in an houre;
Making a chiming of a passing-bell.''
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Flower (l. 15-18). . . The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin B...
 
  ''Who would have thought my shrivelled heart
Could have recovered greenness?''
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet, clergyman. repr. In The Works of George Herbert, ed. Helen Gardner (1961). The Flower, st. 2, The Temple (16...
 
  ''Thy word is all, if we could spell.''
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Flower (l. 21). . . The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Penguin Book...
 
  ''Lovely enchanting language, sugar-cane,
Honey of roses, wither wilt thou fly?''
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Forerunners (l. 19-20). . . The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Peng...
 
  ''True beauty dwells on high: ours is a flame
But borrowed thence to light us thither.
Beauty and beauteous words should go together.''
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Forerunners (l. 28-30). . . The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Peng...
 
  ''Go, birds of spring: let winter have his fee;
Let a bleak paleness chalk the door,
So all within be livelier than before.''
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Forerunners (l. 34-36). . . The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Peng...
 
  The harbingers are come. See, see their mark:
White is their color, and behold my head.
But must they have my brain? Must they dispark
Those sparkling notions, which therein were bred? ...
George Herbert (1593-1633), British poet. The Forerunners (l. 1-6). . . The Complete English Poems [George Herbert]. John Tobin, ed. (1991) Pengui...
 

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