A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Word Explorer: dusky

Number of occurrences in corpus: 21

A.3.4 297 , / amazingly displayed: / part dusky, part crimson, / part black spo
A.4.2 206 in the wood / exulted, and the dusky raven, / that bloodthirsty bir
ALDHELM.CarmRhyth.Octo 35 inded by darkness, as if by a dusky dimness. / The most splendid
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 215 night blackens the world with dusky shadows, / even though Titan po
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 264 might flow copiously from the dusky sky / and the earth might burge
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 491 turned dark ravens with their dusky blackness / into bright-white d
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 629 d embraced the earth with its dusky wings. / Then when sleep overto
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 908 oking lamp-wick, faded in the dusky shadows / as the hanging lanter
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 938 ay my eyes not grow dark with dusky shadows / nor may cataracts pou
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1416 o broach the entrance of that dusky gate / and the dark recesses of
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1687 might release the world from dusky darkness, / where the human rac
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1951 s eyes might not suffer the dusky darkness. / Then the chaste one
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2041 d the vaults of heaven by the dusky air. / Mighty rumblings thunder
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2244 he spectre they thought was a dusky ghost. / For the wicked patron
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2321 is of the skies / drove out the dusky shadows of the gloomy prison /
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2453 r, they fail / and flee beneath dusky shadows, with Christ driving
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2837 as they seek in the light the dusky darkness of the word / and expl
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2866 ve it far from light into the dusky darkness, / now, at the end, I
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 107 nks, / was duly dispelling the dusky darkness with a pale torch. /
N.MiraculaNyniae 216 carry off the bullocks in the dusky darkness. / But almighty God p
N.MiraculaNyniae 233 in his saints. / But when the dusky night had moved its pallid sh