A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

Word Explorer: swift

Number of occurrences in corpus: 35

Riddles 15 2b eafod fealo / sidan swa some || swift ic eom on feðe / beadowæpen b
Riddles 3 72a / wolcnfare wrege || wide fere / swift ond swiðfeorm || saga hwæt
Riddles 51 3b lastas / swaðu swiðe blacu || swift wæs on fore / fuglum framra ||
A.3.4 123 he tree of the grove, / passes swift in feathers, flying in the ai
A.3.4 144 nd thrice shakes his feathers swift in flight; / the bird is quiet
The Phoenix 317a að fiðrum / ac he is snel ond swift || ond swiðe leoht / wlitig on
A.3.4 317 the air, / but he is quick and swift and very light, / beautiful an
A.3.4 335 ps / the adornments of the one swift in flight. Then the species o
A.3.4 346 til the peerless on flies off swift in wings, / so that the band o
The Metres of Boethius: Metre 28 17b criþeþ / suþheald swifeþ || swift untiorig / hwa is on weorulde |
The Metres of Boethius: Metre 7 20a tan || forþæm him lungre on / swift wind swapeþ || ne biþ sond
AETHILVVALD.Wihtfrith.Octo 23 miliar friends and homelands, swift in haste / have travelled to th
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 58 plough / the salty straits in swift ships. In soft terror, they d
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 181 ed. / With chest puffed up, its swift hoof dug the ground; / as, imp
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 595 the dashing waves, / so that a swift death might deliver them from
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 434 / coming now in the image of a swift dove. / This bird , is therefor
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 661 not sense any danger. / So, in swift succession they began to fill
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 788 ter back into a hole below. / A swift bird nourished this man with
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1169 indeed retentive writing and swift in reading. / But the fall of m
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1473 , quicker than speech, like a swift bird he was carried with heav
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1534 ields would lie open to their swift steps / and passing on their ac
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1537 he entreated lofty Olympus in swift succession. / In this way the c
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2380 of saintly purity, / until the swift passing of life, when death b
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 63 re all driven headlong by the swift current / into the grey-haired
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 123 relieved the sad sailors with swift consolation; / and he who had
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 377 vest came; but by chance some swift birds / are keen to rob the ol
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 39 hood ran there together / with swift steps and with trembling hear
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 108 s with a pale torch. / After a swift rumour had reached the ears o
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 204 he ploughed blue Nereus with swift oars. / The healthful coasts op
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 373 deed, / but I declare that the swift mercy of Christ shall come so
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 644 soothing words. Meanwhile, a swift ship / was released from the sl
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 733 sought the Roman halls / with swift feet.However, Archbishop Theo
N.MiraculaNyniae 58 ts on earth, / and the prelate swift in prudent speech and / famed
N.MiraculaNyniae 121 nger hastened from there with swift steps / and rushed into the pr
N.MiraculaNyniae 137 fts. / Run on ahead of me with swift feet, and I shall come; / get