This poet commented that "the harbingers are come" in a poem about the firs
This poet commented that "the harbingers are come" in a poem about the first gray hair growing on his head, while he wrote about a servant "who [by] sweep[ing] a room for thy laws" "makes drudgery divine." In addition to "The Forerunners" and "Elixir" he asserts that his "shriveled heart . . . was gone underground to see their mother root" and later in that poem he declares "now in age I bud again, after so many deaths I live in write." In addition to "The Flower" the narrator of another poem compares himself to "a broken altar." FTP, name this English poet whose poems "Church Monuments" and "The Altar" are collected in The Temple.
This poet commented that "the harbingers are come" in a poem about the first gray hair growing on his head, while he wrote about a servant "who [by] sweep[ing] a room for thy laws" "makes drudgery divine."
George {Herbert} (4) [TG]