A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon PoetryNumber of occurrences in corpus: 71
| A.3.4 234 | dows, / so that he is at first | like | an eagle’s nestling, / the f |
| A.3.4 237 | oys, / so that it is in growth | like | an old eagle , / and then afte |
| A.3.4 300 | upward, / and the beak gleams, | like | glass or a gem, / its jaws bri |
| A.3.4 302 | his eye / is piercing and most | like | a stone in appearance, / a lov |
| A.3.4 305 | n vessel. / Around the throat, | like | a ring of sunlight, / the brig |
| A.3.4 312 | is peerless / in colour, most | like | a peacock, / delightfully grow |
| A.3.4 315 | ht-minded, / heavy or sluggish | like | some birds, / that flap lazily |
| A.3.4 424 | d it again to the holy. / Most | like | this, as the scholars / tell u |
| A.3.4 585 | bodies, / fairly adorned, most | like | the bird, / with noble perfume |
| A.3.4 597 | , in a brilliant troop, / just | like | the phoenix-bird, in the prot |
| A.3.4 601 | Lord, / together in peace most | like | the sun. / There the bright ci |
| A.4.2 222 | ows, / battle-adders from bows | like | horns, / missiles meant to sta |
| AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 6 63 | f the pious, and they descend | like | snow on the confines of the s |
| AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 14 13 | untless troops, / they descend | like | snow when summoned to the pra |
| AETHILVVALD.Aldhelm.Octo 8 | f ‘the Old Protector’ — / | like | the stars of soaring Olympus |
| AETHILVVALD.Offa.Octo 19 | now-white, / radiating greatly | like | a rose with ruddy flowers; / y |
| AETHILVVALD.Wihtfrith.Octo 48 | two left living, flourishing | like | the budding flowers / of parad |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 140 | s / upon the sea-girt peoples. | Like | the morning Star, / hastening |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 183 | it chafed a golden bit. / Just | like | the fearsome Parthian seems w |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 749 | might grant me speech flowing | like | dew / worthily to proclaim the |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 856 | hone in the house of the Lord | like | the blazing morning star. / Thi |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 934 | wretched spirits of men who, | like | sparks, / ascended and likewis |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 941 | e the sound of moaning, / just | like | the cackle of the crowd at a |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 954 | en, behind me something shone | like | a star in the shadows, / incre |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1336 | orrible clamour and shouting / | like | that of a multitude bursting |
| ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 33 10 | t you might learn what he was | like | too, / and from how holy a root |
| ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.11 10 | e structure of creation melts | like | a flow of wax, / with flame cr |
| ALDHELM.CarmRhyth.Octo 29 | ful smoothness began to shine | like | ice, / until they are grimly co |
| ALDHELM.CarmRhyth.Octo 81 | he dark blackness was divided | like | the likeness of death, / then, |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 153 | in. / Gleaming virginity shines | like | the jewel of a crown / which en |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 170 | l burst from of dry branches; / | like | a shining pearl is nurtured i |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 189 | laming gems. / Virginity shines | like | the ruddy purple of kings, / by |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 295 | s to be eaten up / for speaking | like | scoundrels and saying that hi |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 556 | n high on the Roman citadels, | like | the sun. / This man also cure |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 611 | ing of a robe and with gowns. / | Like | a queen, she wore a ruby neck |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1219 | as feathers to the saint, / or | like | the green papyrus that grows |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1473 | h. / Then, quicker than speech, | like | a swift bird he was carried w |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1510 | eight five-year period living | like | this, / praying nearly a hundre |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1657 | final flames, / when hills melt | like | wax and groves disappear, / ind |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1828 | lowing coals cooked her limbs | like | harmless ashes, / since God was |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2057 | ld thriving in its showiness, / | like | the dry debris of husks cast- |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2136 | e spurned kisses on her mouth | like | the bite of an asp, / but press |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2176 | ng with the merits of virtues | like | a jewel in a crown. / Having be |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2322 | nd the excrement stench smelt | like | the fragrance of incense. / Aft |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2337 | le each virginal body floated | like | a ship’s plank, / returning b |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2547 | horehouse of prostitutes just | like | stinking filth. / From this mon |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2589 | rk dodge: / with frenzied hands | like | a thief, he stole the pouch |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2736 | deceit vowed that he would be | like | the Lord. / Then adorned with t |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2762 | this material presses me down | like | a large load, / so that this do |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg prohemium 6 | also granted saints to shine / | like | lamps for the church, in whom |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 17 | nce, being eight, he did not | like | having a three-year-old teach |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 66 | h boat appears on the waves, / | like | a feathered sea-bird floating |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 279 | / so that the deceitful Enemy | like | a vile servant may seduce us |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 355 | ss, disappeared into thin air | like | a wisp of shifting smoke. / Th |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 477 | und to you by brotherly love, | like | Ecgfrith.’ / The suppliant |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 514 | him by paternal right. / And | like | a new Josiah, more mature in |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 789 | ened by cruel death, / but just | like | hearts undertake peaceful sle |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 77 | he rules of his teacher, just | like | honest Samuel, / and submitted |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 186 | n Balthild. / She, smouldering | like | the charred soot of Styx, was |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 606 | in her hostility were putrid: | like | a talkative partridge, / she bl |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 779 | in order that he might not, / | like | a vile apostate or a fugitive |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1160 | he treatise shone. / He entered | like | a ray of the sun, and, like t |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1199 | cked to condemn Wilfrid, / who, | like | a snatched firebrand, remains |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1298 | ough the regions before him; / | like | a mother he nurtured those wh |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1299 | the milk of instruction, / and | like | a father he became angry towa |
| N.MiraculaNyniae 87 | rfect brightness on every age | like | a star. / This venerable house |
| N.MiraculaNyniae 106 | f the illustrious sheepfold, / | like | a splendid column stood over |
| N.MiraculaNyniae 109 | / and many of them flourished | like | the shining lights of heaven, |
| N.MiraculaNyniae 264 | fine righteous men. / I should | like | to be dissolved and to see Ch |
| N.MiraculaNyniae 271 | , shining in a snowy covering | like | the morning star in the sky, |
| N.MiraculaNyniae 488 | all lands / and radiated light | like | the brightest torch in the sk |