A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Word Explorer: wax

Number of occurrences in corpus: 5

AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 72 erer. / In all the porticoes a wax candle was burning, / honourin
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.11 10 creation melts like a flow of wax, / with flame crackling through
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1599 ld fast in the arrangement of wax, / and golden nectar oozing from
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1657 flames, / when hills melt like wax and groves disappear, / indeed
N.MiraculaNyniae 229 one as if it were the softest wax, / and the firmest of rocks gave