Acrostic poems on St Guthlac University of Oxford CLASP Project nick.white@ell.ox.ac.uk https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/N.Guthlac.Acrost Distributed by the University of Oxford under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License Library of Congress Subject Headings Latin Poems Acrostic poems on St Guthlac
[a] Ego licet uilis uernaculus ChristI Adiuuatus gratia iusta depingenS Domino donante digne quae feciT Vota gud uenimus ad summA Voluminis istius fuerunt quipP’ Ad decembri kalendas dies putatI Lucide uiginti uos deprecor exiN Delere u[t] dignetur debita reX Viuenti preces fundere patrI Semper in secula cui gloria maneT [b] Clarificis uirtutum armis iaM Ac seon regen Moyses mirabile fatV Late per mundum merito preconia [Davi]D Decelebrant dum orci multarE Vixerat in terris fulsit qui floribus itA Grandisonis gud quem clamant cantibus itA [c] Benigne natus in orbe Deus ex semine IacoB Electosque suos ad alma uocabat regnA Aeternus fulgens Dominus qui est iustorum rectoR Tumulus iste pulchre sacrata membra includiT Vt cunctis per orbem mira fulserunt munera IosepH Sic huius alma clarescunt signa uirtutes metuO Gratia ac sancta merita gestat ante tribunaL Venientem Dominus dono ditabit honoris magnO Deguit hic dignus hoc loco annos octo et septeM Laboris sancti premium iudicat auctor uitaE Aulam hanc atque nos gud uideat placido uultU Cuius nos credimus opitulatus precibus almiS