id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-2666 George Herbert - Wikipedia .html text/html 4910 554 76 George Herbert (3 April 1593 – 1 March 1633)[1] was a Welsh-born poet, orator, and priest of the Church of England. The earliest portrait of George Herbert was engraved long after his death by Robert White[45] for Walton's biography of the poet in 1674 (see above). The poet is pictured in his riverside garden, prayer book in hand.[46] Over the meadows is Salisbury Cathedral, where he used to join in the musical evensong; his lute leans against a stone bench and against a tree a fishing rod is propped, a reminder of his first biographer, Isaac Walton.[47] There is also a musical reference in Charles West Cope's "George Herbert and his mother" (1872) in Gallery Oldham.[48] The mother points a poem out to him with an arm twined round his neck in a room that has a virginal in the background. 2007: The English Poems of George Herbert, ed. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-2666.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-2666.txt