![]() ![]() It includes such favourites as 'The Collar', 'The Pearl' and 'Love', with its beautiful opening lines: 'Love bade me welcome yet my soul drew back, / Guilty of dust and sin'. The English Poems of George Herbert: Together with His Collection of Proverbs Entitled. ![]() ![]() The Temple is an astounding collection of verse poems: an extended meditation on man's relationship to God that is characterised by Herbert's clarity and directness of style. Priest to the Temple or The Country Parson by George Herbert. ![]() Herbert died in 1633 and the collection was published the same year to great acclaim, subsequently becoming one of the best-loved collections in the English language. On his deathbed George Herbert entrusted the manuscript of The Temple to his friend Nicholas Ferrar, asking him to publish it if he thought it was worthy. Designed by the acclaimed Coralie Bickford-Smith and beautifully set, these slim, A format volumes are the ultimate gift editions for poetry lovers. Yet, for I threatend oft the siege to raise, Not simpring all mine age, Thou often didst with academic praise. I was entangled in the world of strife, Before I had the power to change my life. A collectible new Penguin Classics series: stunning, clothbound editions of ten favourite poets, which present each poet's most famous book of verse as it was originally published. The way that takes the town Thou didst betray me to a lingring book, And wrap me in a gown. ![]()
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