A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Word Explorer: seek

Number of occurrences in corpus: 36

A.3.4 165 at famous prince, / until they seek the land of the Syrians, / in
A.3.4 275 n he is eager to be away, / to seek again his own home. / Then he
A.3.4 320 that bounty. / When he sets out seek the plains, / his old home awa
A.3.4 435 again, and may be allowed to seek / his ancestral home, his sun-b
A.3.4 670 joys in heaven, / where we may seek the greatest kingdom / and sit
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus praefatio 3 e with the eternal King, / and seek the citadels above with shini
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 16 20 to know these things, / let him seek now to submerge himself in th
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 18 23 y, the brothers then began to seek sustenance, / he held himself
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 21 29 were fearful, and desired to seek out rest. / Nor did those host
AETHILVVALD.Wihtfrith.Octo 34 ute / of their endeavour, they seek out the sublime assistance of
AETHILVVALD.Wihtfrith.Octo 51 ce spurned, / not because they seek the fleeting flotsam of the w
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 160 s, / and do not the soothsayer seek out an omen in the warm entra
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 831 ed for a fee, he returned / to seek his home again and told it al
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1320 ian style, holy Balthere, / we seek to signal this place for you
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord P 23 t splendid father, you do not seek grandiloquent treasures, / but
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 18 14 ied, since he did not want to seek praise for himself. / / # / There
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 3 9 tic vows. / Then he set out to seek out the sacred life / while he
ALDHELM.CarmEcc 4.11 5 doctrine / so that they might seek the lofty kingdom by a heaven
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 24 om the rustic Muses, / nor do I seek songs in metres from the Cast
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 33 elations of the gentle Word / I seek a word from the Word: this is
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 349 , / bristly and shaggy he would seek the myrtle groves of wolves, /
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 757 y worshippers / that they might seek barren fields in woody places
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1610 at the wretches might equally seek the nourishment of food. / Then
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2674 desires that the mind should seek leisure / and that sleepiness s
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2837 oets who are singers, / as they seek in the light the dusky darkne
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 422 ame. / The story goes that many seek the holy words of the saint /
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 597 for that reason we should now seek with our words the way to hea
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 662 way in this fleeting time to seek praise — / through which no-
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 733 that Cuthbert might worthily seek the stars / with that witness
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 88 ame decision, / that he should seek the apostolic summit / and exp
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 123 vows I have taken. Why did I seek out / the swelling sea-waters o
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 126 s me, / if I reject Christ and seek again worldly contagion. / Whe
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 141 pened his lips. / “Behold, I seek pardon for the sins I have co
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 225 on name was Ripon. / He did not seek to hide his treasures of bron
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 779 or a fugitive from the laws, seek to give up the land that he k
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 834 reaped. / A person should not seek after rewards, except the one