George Herbert was a 17th century English poet, remembered for his devotional poems that continued to influence readers long after his death. Raised by his widowed mother in London, he had his education first at Westminster School and then at Cambridge University. Eventually he began his career at his alma mater before leaving his job to pursue a life in the church, being ordained as a priest exactly three years before his untimely death from consumption. It was while studying at Cambridge that he penned his first poems, enclosing two devotional sonnets in his letter to his mother on 1 January 1610. In them, he lamented that poetry always wears 'Venus livery’, concurrently declaring that his poems would always be 'consecrated to Gods glory'.  Thereafter, he continued to write devotional poems, majority of which are believed to have been written during his stay at Cambridge, preparing the manuscript of his main work, The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations, at his deathbed, at his rectory in Bemerton. However, he did not live to see it being published.