A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

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https://clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/poem/OSWALD.Xprist.Retro
Author
Oswald the Younger of Ramsey
Title
Prayer to Christ in retrograde verses
Language
Latin
Edited
P. Dronke, M. Lapidge and P. Stotz, 'Die unveröffentlichten Gedichte der Cambridge Liederhandschrift (CUL Gg.5.35)', Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 17 (1982), 54-95, at 67-8
Time
xi1
Listed
ICL 16284
Metre
elegiac couplet
MSS
CUL, Gg. 5.35 (St. Augustine’s, Canterbury, s. ximed), f. 419v.
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OSWALD.Xprist.Retro

OSWALD.Xprist.Retro 1. Terrigene bene nunc laudent, ut condecet, almum Terrigene bene nunc laudent, ut condecet, almum
OSWALD.Xprist.Retro 2. vocibus excelsis sic sibi perplacitis. uocibus excelsis sic sibi perplacitis.
OSWALD.Xprist.Retro 3. Celigenam patre de celo for gaudia mundi Celigenam patre de celo for gaudia mundi
OSWALD.Xprist.Retro 4. debita solvente[m]: que pia perficiat! debita soluente[m]: que pia perficiat!
OSWALD.Xprist.Retro 5. Omnipotens habet hic nomen, hoc fungitur actu; Omnipotens habet hic nomen, hoc fungitur actu;
OSWALD.Xprist.Retro 6. viribus eternis est iugis altithronus. uiribus eternis est iugis altithronus.
OSWALD.Xprist.Retro 7. Verbotenus fore sunt que fecit robore grandi: Verbotenus fore sunt que fecit robore grandi:
OSWALD.Xprist.Retro 8. omnia subsistunt, ut regit omnipatrans. omnia subsistunt, ut regit omnipatrans.