Gnomic poetry consists of meaningful sayings put into verse to aid the memory. They were known by the Greeks as gnomes (c.f. the Greek adjective γνωμικός...

"Maxims I, A, B and C") and "Maxims II" are pieces of Old English gnomic poetry. The poem "Maxims I" can be found in the Exeter Book and "Maxims II"...

expressing a general truth or aphorism Gnomic poetry, a poetry genre Gnomic will, an Eastern Orthodox theological concept Gnome (disambiguation) Gnomonic projection...

memorably arranged; comparable with the Old English sayings, Gnomic poetry, and Old Norse poetry of wisdom and learning. The Old English Rune Poem as recorded...

especially a philosophical maxim Maxims (Old English poems), examples of gnomic poetry Maximes (1665–78) of François de La Rochefoucauld (1613–80) Mary Maxim...

approximately the sixth century BC. The work attributed to him consists of gnomic poetry quite typical of the time, featuring ethical maxims and practical advice...

called subhāṣita, ("well said") which can be classified as gnomic poetry and didactic poetry. These are mainly poems which contain some wise saying, aphoristic...

of the female population. Other fragments belong to the registers of gnomic poetry and wisdom literature in which the Hesiodic Works and Days and the Theognidea...

Dinogat (Dinogad's Smock). Much of the nature poetry, gnomic poetry, prophetic poetry, and religious poetry in the Black Book of Carmarthen and the Red...

possessing, in varying degree, the prosodic and rhetoric qualities of gnomic poetry." Within the chapter-structure, the couplets acquire their structural...