A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

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Poem of the Day: LAVRENCE.Orat.Acrost

Lux mundi laeta, Deus, haec tibi celeri cursV
Alme potens, scribsi, soli famulatus et unI,
Vt te, vita, fruar teque casto inueniam cultV.
Rectaque per te ad te ducente te gradiar uiA.
Excelse cernis Deus, quae me plurima cingunT
Nota et ignota tuis male nata zezania satiS.
Tu sed mihi certa salus spesque unica uitaE
Inmeritum licet lucis facias adtingere limeN.
Verba nam tua ualida imis me tollunt AuernI;
Sola haec misero mihi te, uitam, dabunt seruulO.

Word Form of the Day: smolt

Number of occurrences in corpus: 2

Andreas 1581a: -ræce || strǣt ġe·rȳmed. / Smolt wæs sē siġe-wang, || simbl
Guthlac A 742a: ðan he ðas woruld forhogde / smolt wæs se sigewong || ond sele

Metre of the Day

Bliss: Scansion: xxxxSx; Type: a1d
Sievers: Scansion: xxxx / x; Type: A3
Russom: Scansion: xx/Sx

Syntax: Vs
Light Verse

Places with this scansion (bliss)

Other places with this scansion (sievers)