A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Word Explorer: hold

Number of occurrences in corpus: 13

AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 14 29 heart, and his throat did not hold back from song. / And when the
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 23 24 s kindness through time, / and hold you back from the bonds and b
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 508 er of his own people, / Oswiu, hold on to the throne through grea
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1010 bore, / nor did she happen to hold them within the confines of h
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 34 35 d with mind and hand; / seizing hold of celestial life with all it
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 5 ery with rosy bloom, / and also hold back the sapphire surface of
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 102 beguiling wantonness does not hold sway, / but rather the spirit s
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 482 he darkness of the old law to hold sway, / and to prefer the rites
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 145 and without any delay he took hold / of that which he had asked,
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 255 ll with a sudden crash: / “We hold to an ancestral principle, to
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 457 ade, / nor did bitterness take hold of it, nor did double talk br
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 686 on your command? / Stop; take hold of faith. You will be capture
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1185 tivity of the wicked does not hold back from harassing / the life