Wither’s ear­ly ed­u­ca­tion was at the Gram­mar School of Cole­more (or Cole­mere), un­der its cel­e­brat­ed mas­ter, John Greaves. In 1604, he en­tered Mag­da­len Coll­ege, Ox­ford, where his tu­tor was John War­ner (the lat­er Bi­shop of Ro­ches­ter). Wither had been there on­ly three years when his fa­ther, fol­low­ing bad ad­vice that fur­ther ed­u­ca­tion was un­ne­ces­sa­ry, with­drew George from the un­i­ver­si­ty. Not­with­stand­ing, Wi­ther went to be­come one of the pre-em­i­nent Pur­i­tan po­ets. His works in­clude:

• Abuses Stript and Whipt, 1613
• Exercises Vpon the First Psalme, 1620
• Paraphrase on the Creed and the Lord’s Pray­er, 1620
• The Songs of the Old Test­a­ment, Trans­la­ted in­to Engl­ish Mea­sures, 1621
• The Hymnes and Songs of the Church, 1623
• A Collection of Em­blemes, An­cient and Mo­dern, 1635
• Halelevia; or Bri­tains Se­cond Re­mem­branc­er, 1641
• Three Graines of Spir­it­u­al Frank­in­cense, 1651

Sources

Hymns

1. Veil, Lord, Mine Eyes till She Be Past