George Herbert is famous for his poems and for his prose work, A Priest to the Temple: or The Country Parson. He described his poems as “a picture of the many spiritual conflicts that have passed betwixt God and my soul, before I could submit mine to the will of Jesus my Master; in whose service I have found perfect freedom.”

Herbert was born in Montgomery, Wales, on April 3rd, 1593, a cousin of the Earl of Pembroke. Through his official positi…