A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Word Explorer: prison

Number of occurrences in corpus: 25

AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 11 54 wedded husband / to go to the prison shades, until, after being sw
AETHILVVALD.Wihtfrith.Octo 43 er being torn from the secret prison of the flesh, / and joined the
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 679 op’s spirit, abandoning the prison of the flesh, / sought the hei
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1647 ing to free the soul from the prison of the flesh, / he carried it
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 28 3 it of the bishop, leaving the prison of the flesh, / seeks the high
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.2 2 who punished holy crowds with prison, / is made a believer with his
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.7 25 parts and enclosed within the prison of the city walls. / It was a
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 385 uld bake the boys / in the grim prison with harmless firebrands; / ind
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 440 e of: / he endured the filth of prison and gloomy pits lacking light
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 487 previously condemned to dark prison / the limbs of many men who wer
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 830 ints, / confounding the fleshly prison of a licentious mind / maintain
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1140 he dark blackness of a bolted prison, / greatly fearing the decrees o
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1230 ed into the dark blackness of prison to suffer / where fetid excreme
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1398 ed into the black darkness of prison, . / where the mighty rotting co
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1409 usly kept watch over the dark prison. / Meanwhile [Julian] commande
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2223 sly mentioned out of the dark prison. / The savage governor, Dulcitiu
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2301 e by side the dark squalor of prison. / Then one sister, Rufina, refu
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2318 / Then for a second time the prison lacking any lantern’s light
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2321 e dusky shadows of the gloomy prison / and the excrement stench smel
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 495 released from the chains and prison of the flesh’. / Without del
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 605 t kept alone, enclosed in the prison of the flesh; / you will gladl
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 847 as witness and saw the cruel prison being illuminated / with brigh
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 886 ing that the condemned man in prison be bound with fetters of hard
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 925 uctantly agreed, and soon the prison lay open, / and the thickest o
N.MiraculaNyniae 474 e oppressed by punishments in prison; / in the punishments of hunger