A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Word Explorer: fire

Number of occurrences in corpus: 51

Azarias 65a dæges hwile / se wæs in ðam fire || for frean meahtum / halgum t
A.3.4 17 h of frost, / not the blast of fire, nor the dropping of hail, / no
A.3.4 40 hers under the sky, / nor does fire ever at all harm them, / befor
A.3.4 217 ture, fiercely hastens, / pale fire devours and the phoenix burns
A.3.4 270 e gathers his body, / that the fire had taken off, from the remna
A.3.4 285 ge of flame / had engulfed with fire upon the pyre on the mound, /
A.3.4 437 settlement / after the bath of fire; just so those ancestors, / our
A.3.4 503 become / fearful in heart when fire razes / the fleeting land’s
A.3.4 526 ’s judgement, / sore afraid. Fire is on the march, / it burns up
A.3.4 534 with it, / and then after the fire takes on life again, / anew. J
A.3.4 545 ed through the burning of the fire. / Let none of the race of men
AETHILVVALD.Aldhelm.Octo 20 aries scatter their breath of fire from the sky, / nor do they ha
AETHILVVALD.Sator.Octo 21 h, in avenging eddies of dark fire. / Listen, may he turn away t
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 214 h the flames of faith and the fire of virtue / For six years he d
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 239 with iron and burning it with fire, / in countless thousands, exce
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 346 / It happened that a voracious fire suddenly snatched at / the hi
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 370 night. / But when they saw the fire of the divine light, / they as
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 916 eping, into the flame-spewing fire. / Seeing this, I pondered that
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 947 unded me, / breathing stinking fire from their nostrils / and mout
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 991 which belches forth stinking fire / is the mouth of hell, and wh
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 22 9 , screaming, into the burning fire, / but it was barely snatched fr
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 22 17 emy: “Please do not let the fire terrify you; / you are building
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.2 25 sly piling a brushwood on the fire / so that he might drive out t
ALDHELM.CarmRhyth.Octo 48 jagged points spew forth pale fire, / the origin of which derives f
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 380 rnace’s flames, so that the fire might prompt worship, / while h
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 382 ostile bands bound holy arms. / Fire immediately burnt through cru
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 389 g stars / to quench the burning fire with icy blasts / extinguishing
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 950 ked witness burned in blazing fire, / he who first cast darts from
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1349 pretended to be powerful with fire, / restraining fiery lightning-b
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1429 / and straightaway a devouring fire burnt them up in fierce flame
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1822 ed the tender little one with fire / in which black streams of pit
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2225 ok at, was inflamed by a vile fire / and assailed by the spur of l
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2518 ts with sulphurous flames set fire to / the fornicators and catami
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2570 marrow has been enflamed with fire. / Third after that, love of m
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2623 . / So also, the greedy man and fire and hell / can be compared by a
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg prohemium 6 for the church, in whom, with fire as a guide, love would be eve
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 50 and cook them together in the fire of boiling oven; / to be heale
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 281 these admonitions a voracious fire, surging from empty kindling /
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 293 hed. / Rather indeed, when real fire with crackling flames / snatch
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 295 nd, turning back the wind and fire, / he turns back the danger wit
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 823 all. / Another, consumed by the fire of a disease-bearing fever, /
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 19 elve servants with an ignited fire, / and he increased their number
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 40 ng hearts, / lest the consuming fire should enter the upper parts
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 43 ey were not surprised / that a fire had broken out. “How astoni
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 566 at he might not fall into the fire through the ardour of an inna
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 649 e handed / over to the eternal fire, not content to have poured ou
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 676 ng it / into the depths of the fire. “I pray that in this way an
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 798 this happened by the glowing fire of a lightning strike, / which
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1199 , remains unburned by a great fire. / Just as Peter greatly revered
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1372 ess / in their chests, applied fire to the building from which he
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1373 dead man terrified the living fire, / mollifying the fierce men an