“My meaning (dear Mother) is in these sonnets, to declare my resolution to be, that my poor abilities in poetry, shall be all and ever consecrated to God's glory.”

— George Herbert

Letter to His Mother (1609)

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Welsh-born English poet, orator and Anglican priest 1593–1633

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