A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Word Explorer: lest

Number of occurrences in corpus: 22

A.3.4 246 g of winter at reaping-time, / lest a shower of rain should damag
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 11 63 more cautiously henceforth, / lest he should come again and be c
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1570 t, / my mournful poetic voice, lest you perish, drowned in an edd
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 11 8 eed with the bread of heaven, / lest the people go away from them
ALDHELM.CarmVirg Praefatio 15 g right hand touch the needy, / lest the deceitful despoiler be ab
ALDHELM.CarmVirg Praefatio 17 a show of transgressions; / or lest the devious thief thrust down
ALDHELM.CarmVirg Praefatio 19 pherd watching over his fold, lest the ranting robber / ravaging t
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 6 ce of the wave-wandering deep / lest they are able to drown the la
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 275 e power of heaven snatched up / lest he suffer the ghastly damnati
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1472 opped him from stripping off, / lest he outrage the rules of modes
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2513 mly cups of boiled down wine, / lest perhaps she might lose the vi
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2535 keen to overcome this beast, / lest the voracious monster should
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2569 battles with virginal arrows, / lest the lurid poison of the whore
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2650 ich usually spur on the mind; lest perhaps they falter, / the joys
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2656 tead be smashed straightaway, / lest the uprightness of a weakenin
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 333 arts fleeing at hiss arrival. / Lest because of the unstable prais
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 920 to health by this cure. / And lest by chance anyone should think
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 40 ps and with trembling hearts, / lest the consuming fire should ent
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 301 brace him, him, you peoples, / lest the palace of the life-giving
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 852 ments you are imitating, / and (lest you despair) whose splendour
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1352 nd, my brothers, be vigilant, lest you be engulfed / by the seari
N.Æthelstan.Coloph 21 nterbury / be on their guard, lest envious deceit perpetrate som