George Herbert - Tree Quotes

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Now I am here, what thou wilt do with me
None of my books will show:
I read, and sigh, and wish I were a tree;
For then I should grow
To fruit or shade: at least some bird would trust
Her household to me, and I should be just.

George Herbert

I got me flowers to strew Thy way;
I got me boughs off many a tree:
But Thou wast up by break of day,
And brought'st Thy sweets along with Thee.

George Herbert

Oh that I were an orange-tree,
That busy plant!
Then I should ever laden be,
And never want
Some fruit for Him that dressed me.

George Herbert

Man stole the fruit, but I must climb the tree.

George Herbert

Great trees are good for nothing but shade.

George Herbert

When the tree is fallen, all goe with their hatchet.
[When the tree is fallen, all go with their hatchet.]

George Herbert

Sink not in spirit; who aimeth at the sky
Shoots higher much than he that means a tree.

George Herbert