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Subject: HERBERT, GEORGE (1593-1633)
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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A VISION OF SAINTS: GEORGE HERBERT, by LEWIS MORRIS (1833-1907)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And then I saw a reverend figure come
Last Line: "but this one never."
Subject(s): Herbert, George (1593-1633)


CONFUSION, by CHRISTOPHER HARVEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O how my mind / is gravell'd!
Last Line: Else my soul dies famisht and starv'd with flesh.
Subject(s): Herbert, George (1593-1633); Thought; Thinking


DIALOGUE, by RHINA POLONIA ESPAILLAT    Poem Source                    
First Line: My friend george herbert has been chiding me
Last Line: Who at sleep's edge %enjoy such privilege
Subject(s): Herbert, George (1593-1633); Man-woman Relationships; Women's Rights


GEORGE HERBERT, by FRANK X. GASPAR    Poem Source                    
First Line: I am watching the morning stars sing together
Last Line: That faint gauze, that almost-nothing that is a whole world
Subject(s): Herbert, George (1593-1633)


GEORGE HERBERT, by THOMAS SAMUEL JONES JR.    Poem Source                    
First Line: Wide pastures, thatch of turf, and ancient spire
Subject(s): Herbert, George (1593-1633); Poetry And Poets


ON GEORGE HERBERT'S BOOK, THE TEMPLE, SENT TO A GENTLEWOMAN, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Know you, fair, on what you look
Last Line: Of your white hand, they are mine.
Subject(s): Books; Herbert, George (1593-1633); Reading


PRAYING WITH GEORGE HERBERT IN LATE WINTER, by TOM ANDREWS    Poem Full Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In fits and starts, lord
Subject(s): Herbert, George (1593-1633); Prayer; Religion; Theology


PRAYING WITH GEORGE HERBERT IN LATE WINTER, by TOM ANDREWS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: In fits and starts, lord
Last Line: But what a racket I make in telling you
Subject(s): Herbert, George (1593-1633); Prayer; Religion


THE AGE OF HERBERT & VAUGHAN, by EDMUND CHARLES BLUNDEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Then it was faith and fairness
Last Line: At once he stood rewarded!
Alternate Author Name(s): Blunden, Edmund
Subject(s): Herbert, George (1593-1633); Poetry & Poets; Vaughan, Henry (1621-1695)


TO MR GEORGE HERBERT, WITH ONE OF MY SEALS, OF THE ANCHOR AND CHRIST, by JOHN DONNE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A sheafe of snakes used heretofore to be
Last Line: To you, who bear his name, great bounties deal.
Subject(s): Herbert, George (1593-1633)


YE HAVE YOUR CLOSES, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As grey damp covers this supine july
Last Line: How carbon kept us whole - and though the whole %world turn to coal, then chiefly live
Subject(s): Herbert, George (1593-1633)