A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Word Explorer: sleep

Number of occurrences in corpus: 21

A.3.4 56 nt of wealth, / nor sorrow nor sleep, nor chronic disease, / nor win
A.4.2 247 be struck down started out of sleep, / and, weary of heart, they be
A.4.2 321 e of the people, / put them to sleep with swords. They rested on t
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 7 10 iring to pass a night without sleep, / did not cease to stretch out
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 412 he were settling his limbs in sleep, / and the bystanders looked to
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 450 o remove the moss. / Kept from sleep, he held it in his lap without
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 867 so that there should be brief sleep for all and food in a flash,
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1201 an rose up as if from a heavy sleep / and, opening his eyes, he re
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1574 ll, / suddenly closed in final sleep the venerable eyes / of that a
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 291 gh it had already been put to sleep by the chance of decease. / But
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 470 ile, he raises corpses put to sleep in death, / which the bonds of
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 618 his high bed, / pale, unable to sleep, and gripped in fear of the dr
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 630 th its dusky wings. / Then when sleep overtook the regal limbs in t
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1294 s hearts, / urged them in their sleep to preserve pure chastity. / Fo
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2667 s leisure and will covet idle sleep / and likewise, the tiresome tr
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 86 ion; / to his companions, whom sleep had overcome, he says: / ‘A
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 87 inds are overcome by sluggish sleep, / we do not deserve to see the
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 789 ike hearts undertake peaceful sleep / it seemed still to be flexib
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 841 the holy martyr. / Soon sweet sleep soothed the early hours of da
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 844 er foot in the course of glad sleep, / just as fish dragged out of
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1196 l the old snares quickly fall sleep. / The stupid people who are ra