A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon PoetryNumber of occurrences in corpus: 125
| Genesis A 6a | ihtig || næs him fruma æfre / | or | geworden || ne nu ende cymþ / |
| Genesis A 1006b | ndswarode / ne can ic abeles || | or | ne fore / hleomæges siþ || ne |
| Daniel 133b | if þu his ærest ne meaht || | or | areccan / þa him unbliþe || a |
| Andreas 1382a | yninges word / þær wæs yfles | or | || ende næfre / þines wræces |
| The Fates of the Apostles 65b | / dryhtlic dom godes || dæges | or | onwoc / leohtes geleafan || lan |
| Riddles 3 59b | es wæpen / ic ðæs orleges || | or | anstelle / ðonne gewite || wol |
| Riddles 84 10a | esceaft || fæder ealle bewat / | or | ond ende || swylce an sunu / m |
| A.3.4 25 | , as here among us, / no dales | or | valleys or ravines, no hilloc |
| A.3.4 52 | ef, no token of woe, / old age | or | grimness, nor narrow death, / |
| A.3.4 300 | d the beak gleams, like glass | or | a gem, / its jaws brilliant, i |
| A.3.4 315 | hful nor light-minded, / heavy | or | sluggish like some birds, / th |
| A.3.4 357 | ows what its gender is, / male | or | female; none of mankind / know |
| A.3.4 386 | afterwards dwell in the world | [or | ‘glory’?] / as a reward fo |
| Juliana 353a | e ead mæg || yfla gehwylces / | or | gecyðe || oð ende forð / ða |
| Beowulf 1688b | e / ealde lafe || on ðæm wæs | or | writen / fyrngewinnes || syðð |
| Beowulf 2407b | oða secg / se ðæs orleges || | or | onstealde / hæft hygegiomor || |
| A.4.2 234 | ared none / of that army, high | or | low / of living men whom they |
| A.4.2 259 | who dared waken the warrior / | or | find out what had come to pas |
| A.4.2 275 | one of the war-wagers sooner | or | later / grew confident enough |
| Cædmon's Hymn, Northumbrian Version 4b | uundra gihuaes / eci dryctin || | or | astelidæ / he aerist scop || a |
| Cædmon's Hymn, West-Saxon Version 4b | wundra gehwæs / ece drihten || | or | onstealde / he ærest sceop || |
| AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 8 47 | an avoid the current danger, / | or | at least Christ may deign to |
| AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 11 29 | judgement receive forgiveness | or | punishment. / But the wife’s |
| AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 11 58 | God: ‘have pity, we pray, / | or | at least that your husband be |
| AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 14 32 | o penetrate the lofty skies, / | or | that on which she was born an |
| AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 14 33 | owed upon the present world, / | or | that on which she received th |
| AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 14 34 | of the very beautiful life, / | or | that on which she was worthy |
| AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 14 35 | the high-throned Thunderer, / | or | on whatever day the feast-day |
| AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 100 | them will feel hunger, pain, | or | thirst through the ages, / but |
| AETHILVVALD.Offa.Octo 32 | r that reason I do not relate | or | recount with any kind of prai |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 45 | omeland with her own shields / | or | summon back their forefathers |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 184 | thian seems with bow curved: / | or | the nimble Moor sends long da |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 406 | ld constrain him with chains / | or | contain the wretch’s wild m |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 690 | lling grew in his frail body; / | or | how, when himself a boy, he c |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 692 | uffeted by wind on the waves; / | or | how he saw the soul of bishop |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 700 | the coming of certain calm ; / | or | how he predicted that he and |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 702 | eagle, and so it turned out; / | or | how, he turned back burning f |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 704 | young men could not manage; / | or | how a married woman possessed |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 706 | as asked to by her husband; / | or | how that saint drove out wick |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 721 | ck man when mixed with water; / | or | how when as a traveller he ha |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 723 | h by praying himself for him; / | or | how that holy father, when a |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 725 | ty for her son and household / | or | how he saw companies of angel |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 729 | the wasting of loose bowels; / | or | how, in the eleventh year aft |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 811 | m why he could not be bound, / | or | whether perhaps he had learne |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 869 | nce, houses, / money, clothes, | or | anything as their own, / but t |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 938 | / unaware of what I should do, | or | where I should turn my step, / |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 939 | where I should turn my step, / | or | what end might perhaps await |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 964 | o not quite clearly know how / | or | in what way, we were standing |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1304 | devoted himself / to learning | or | writing, working with energet |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1479 | bishop did he spare the king | or | wicked nobles, / but even on a |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1485 | nge his former habit of dress | or | food; / though he shunned the |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1538 | an owned in the Latin world, / | or | whatever famous Greece transm |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1539 | e transmitted to the Latins, / | or | what the Hebrew people drank |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1540 | in from the heavenly shower, / | or | whatever Africa has spread in |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1547 | om; / whatever Aldhelm taught, | or | Bede the master, / what Victor |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1551 | ian; / whatever also Sedulius, | or | Juvencus himself sings; / Alci |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1553 | Arator, / whatever Fortunatus | or | Lactantius produced, / or Verg |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1554 | atus or Lactantius produced, / | or | Vergil, Statius, or the poet |
| ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1555 | Statius, or the poet Lucan; / | or | what the masters of grammatic |
| ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 2 3 | steps throughout every city, / | or | hamlets, homesteads, or cross |
| ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 7 4 | captured by an ancient error, / | or | among the Danes, a mighty fer |
| ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 34 58 | hings with a running plectrum / | or | to reveal famous signs in my |
| ALDHELM.CarmEcc 3 59 | eir voice, / and let each male | or | female reader unfold the sacr |
| ALDHELM.CarmRhyth.Octo 6 | as lacking / any flowering turf | or | flourishing grass, / the mighty |
| ALDHELM.CarmRhyth.Octo 59 | high, / which no one can reckon | or | count in number? / Listen, ma |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg Praefatio 16 | off the heavens’ threshold, / | or | to mislead the saints with a |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg Praefatio 17 | ith a show of transgressions; / | or | lest the devious thief thrust |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 65 | loose the strumming of speech / | or | plays songs to Christ on the |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 75 | know the mysteries of things / | or | recognize God’s secrets thr |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 76 | son , / unless the searing coal | or | the burning pebble, taken up |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 137 | her mistress by a stupid act, / | or | a serving-woman ever govern w |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 152 | is an ungodly deed to pollute | or | stain them by sin. / Gleaming v |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 208 | golden studs stands out more, / | or | tawny plates shine surely mor |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 211 | raped leather / and willow-wood | or | made with a thin covering of |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 213 | antern strongly surpasses it, / | or | the oil-lamp illuminating dar |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 282 | l, / whether kindly to the fine | or | truly cruel to the wicked. / |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 362 | ear / the savage jaws of beasts | or | the maws of lions, / even thoug |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 855 | had been reborn. / What measure | or | number or accurately tallied |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1219 | oft as feathers to the saint, / | or | like the green papyrus that g |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1330 | th his shield; / nor were Venus | or | her most shameful offspring o |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1342 | they sculpted in shiny marble / | or | which gold leaves adorned wit |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1461 | ere is such a thing as chance | or | fate or the alignment of star |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1642 | e twin laws with so much zeal | or | so assiduously / as this same t |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1781 | ir flesh had been mistreated, / | or | rather, they adorned saints w |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1852 | uld not sway the innocent one / | or | arouse the virgin’s innards |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1875 | mitting her neck to the blade / | or | from pouring out streams of b |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1940 | often to his shameful words, / | or | if she, as a virgin, should b |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2267 | unwilling to offer up incense / | or | to perform profane rites at t |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2782 | I say, although burning July / | or | even August might stretch out |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2795 | grow completely sour with age / | or | that the teeth of drinkers wi |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2826 | mit the harmful sins / of deeds | or | words or even thoughts alone! |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2839 | e, / if a letter should stumble | or | a syllable stagger, / or if gen |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2840 | tumble or a syllable stagger, / | or | if gender, number, and case s |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2859 | oes not shrink from a spectre | or | ghost, , / but relying on his b |
| ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2874 | is rule, / not having beginning | or | end and being outside of time |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 29 | servants at the race-track, / | or | will it be right for a bishop |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 75 | hom sad blows are assailing, / | or | rather let us pray to the Lor |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 322 | s a sign of a sad heart?’ / | Or | do you think that, when I ent |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 435 | med even the tips of my toes / | or | even a little terror touched |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 489 | ot shun / any recesses of sky, | or | earth or sea; / if He should o |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 521 | to change the usual clothing / | or | dry diet of the hermitage. T |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 560 | e taint of illness and sick, / | or | how many fires of fever he as |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 563 | into the glad taste of wine, / | or | how often the terror of spiri |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 664 | cesses of a sheltered heart, / | or | render what is appropriate fo |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 697 | the fathers enjoins for you, / | or | which I myself used to set fo |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 709 | aming course / should approval | or | the fleeting glory of empty p |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 721 | nce of brotherly consolation / | or | at least to take in an attend |
| BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 859 | le dwelling / so that the rain | or | the penetrating cold of the s |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 316 | ecipice of a blasphemous cave / | or | avoid purifying the moist hol |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 481 | him. / What then? Shall I speak | or | shall I be silent? / Grant the |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 576 | nder him, either to serve God | or | to be able to experience pala |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 755 | he churches should cultivate, | or | what they are ordered to avoi |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 779 | ht not, / like a vile apostate | or | a fugitive from the laws, see |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 837 | ngeon. / Shall I call you happy | or | sad, shepherd? You rejoiced t |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 856 | e given to the bitter sword, / | or | if javelins were pressed upon |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 894 | were too large and fell off, | or, | by chance, were not able to f |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 954 | u crop which is about to die, | or | / are you being burned up by th |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1057 | broken where he was prelate, | or | that the fields which had bee |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1092 | not be immune from punishment | or | exempt from accusation. / He r |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1206 | , / either by the royal summit | or | by the ecclesiastical order. |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1313 | ters / with cyclical sweetness, | or | if I were the faithful follow |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1318 | epriving them / of their sight, | or | condemning them to a mutterin |
| FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1319 | o a muttering of the tongue, / | or | restraining their steps, or c |
| N.MiraculaNyniae 63 | shall I sing / worthy of you, | or | who can compose worthy songs |
| N.MiraculaNyniae 289 | g him could not take a step, / | or | run on feet that were constri |