1.George Herbert, The Poetical Works of George Herbert (New York: Appleton and Co., (1857), 47.

2.ibid.

3.ibid.

4.ibid.

5.ibid.

6.ibid.

7.Baird W. Whitlock, “The Sacramental Poetry of George Herbert,” South Central Review 3, no. 1 (1986): 38.

8.ibid.

9.Martin Elsky, “George Herbert’s Pattern Poems and the Materiality of Language: A New Approach to Renaissance Hieroglyphics,” ELH 50, no. 2 (1983): 257.