A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

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Number of occurrences in corpus: 125

A.3.4 356 ne, / the almighty king, knows what its gender is, / male or femal
A.3.4 492 l strike a synod, judge after what is due. / Then all men on eart
A.4.2 93 -minded distributor of glory, what sits so bitterly in my breast
A.4.2 259 aken the warrior / or find out what had come to pass / between the
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 1 16 give the poet singing: / for what he was able piously to offer,
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 4 10 ery. / Eanmund having attained what he had granted to blessed Chr
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 5 12 gladly drank in with his ears what the other sent out from the d
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 5 15 harp sense; / moreover he took what was worth telling in a memora
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 6 6 table, / and to be mindful of what he had promised and show what
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 10 5 e forge roared. / Cwicwine was what this man had been called by h
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 15 17 nother he could certainly see what he had seen. / While the gener
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 16 9 no learned way, / and attempts what it is able worthily to say. /
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 18 31 e of food asked, he took only what sufficed / he refused to take a
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 18 32 ake any more nourishment than what was right. / Formed by these g
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 21 33 hes. / It has been established what was done rather often by the
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 52 lowing words: / ‘Tell me, in what place remain my former teache
AEDILVVLF.DeAbbatibus 22 104 spoken, I then began to write what I had seen. / / # / Lofty father,
AETHILVVALD.Offa.Octo 33 count with any kind of praise / what is clear to everyone througho
AETHILVVALD.Wihtfrith.Octo 57 have been close at hand; / and what the prophets, apostles of a r
AETHILVVALD.Wihtfrith.Octo 68 he basest germ of nature, / but what seems to the world both more
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 99 oke to him in friendly words: / What harsh care enflames you, brav
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 175 ; / from now on I shall follow what is certain, longing to know /
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 186 ear at the top of the temple. / What blessed boldness in so great
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 228 eapons of his companions. / Oh, what a blind thing it is to have t
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 371 ne light, / they asked to keep what they had previously refused,
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 413 the bystanders looked to see what would be the outcome. / After t
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 429 / of your praise. You restored what was formerly lost; / now throu
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 467 xious with great dread / about what his sins deserved, and that a
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 770 ining with ruddy charm, / and, what is rightly much more amazing
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 904 fe everyone could easily see / what and how much he had seen when
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 905 the body. / He used to describe what he had seen in this way: / ‘D
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 938 me on all sides, / unaware of what I should do, or where I shoul
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 939 ere I should turn my step, / or what end might perhaps await me in
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 964 quite clearly know how / or in what way, we were standing on the
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1166 d merciful man rightly refuse what full faith / entreated, but he
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1207 now. / Here, we have only told what Bede the master set down / whe
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1258 poor with devout heart, / and what lost on earth, he stored up f
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1343 ace and immediately asked it / what it was, why it fled, and what
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1379 s, no moisture to his socks: / what nature denies, your right han
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1539 ransmitted to the Latins, / or what the Hebrew people drank in fr
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1541 d in bright-streaming light: / what father Jerome believed and Hi
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1543 nd / Saint Athanasius himself, what shrewd Orosius produced, / wha
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1548 taught, or Bede the master, / what Victorinus and Boethius wrote
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1555 atius, or the poet Lucan; / or what the masters of grammatical ar
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1556 rs of grammatical art wrote; / what Probus and Focas, Donatus and
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1576 shop, our father and teacher? / What a black day that was for us,
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1592 tless waves, / uncertain as to what kind of harbour we deserve to
ALCVIN.VPatRegSanctEubor 1600 verses / and touch briefly on what happened when I was a boy, / a
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord P 22 these not to be despised, / but what a gracious mind offered shoul
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 23 11 sk of our verses to point out / what is celebrated in true speech
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 29 5 rtain faith in their account. / What rest do you suppose that his
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 33 10 ader, so that you might learn what he was like too, / and from how
ALCVIN.VmetWillibrord 34 10 things in her mind, / wondered what she had seen could mean for h
ALDHELM.CarmRhyth.Octo 3 sung this song and fulfilled what I agreed, / just as I had under
ALDHELM.CarmRhyth.Octo 58 s against the rocky shores. / What shall I say of the mighty wor
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 33 a word from the Word: this is what the psalmist sang, / engendered
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 140 o craft virginity’s crowns! / What pleases the heaven-dwellers m
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 197 n the circus-contest receives what the garland. / No differently w
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 305 het / so that he could perceive what was cloaked in obscurity / and
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 613 ke and taught the ruler about what was to be, / explaining everyth
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 621 ey might explain the fates of what was hidden for him, / he asked
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 622 hidden for him, / he asked them what future secrets were signified
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 767 ut his magnificent life, / with what signs the kindly one shone fo
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 768 ne forth in the world, / and in what way he cured the body’s fou
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 855 the building had been reborn. / What measure or number or accurate
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 872 to a longed-for rule, / and in what way a holy worshipper might h
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 988 ut sure accounts made serious what started as a game, / when kindl
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1005 it turned out otherwise from what the cock-eyed plan scheme int
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1021 a priest blunted the bite of what she said / with a shield, overc
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1492 lth, / as soon as they returned what had been stolen in this wicke
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1710 wicked stains. / In addition, what page of metres can creditably
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1866 ilthy idols, / having found out what peril the virgin could put up
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1873 w the tyrant’s decrees, / oh, what harsh deadly tortures did the
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1883 y dreadful deadly tortures. / What, moreover, can an unlearned bu
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 1893 reasoning in this way conceal what was hiding beneath. / For the b
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2048 accord had previously denied / what his sorrowful sister in had s
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2156 s of the chaste life / and with what kind crowns by which bright-w
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2247 erceive the fog of deception / what the rest could see without wi
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2530 d husband: / alas, how many and what kinds of piles of carnage the
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2551 s of sport. / Oh, how great and what kinds of men, famous with pra
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2560 ld declares him celebrated! / What shall I say of Judith, who ca
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2687 nours will follow you.’ / Oh, what false trifles the lying thief
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2693 dorn earthly offspring? / Alas, what sin, alas! From this arose wi
ALDHELM.CarmVirg 2728 n of a heart refusing to obey what is said, / and the savage back-
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 203 ask, if you stay silent about what you saw / until I leave the wo
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 411 and study their sound sense. / What shall I say about the watery
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 447 led my whole life to me, / and what remained for me in the sequen
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 557 ords. / Why should I try to say what I am not up to expressing in
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 585 ad spoken, / seeing in absence what was to come as he had previou
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 664 a sheltered heart, / or render what is appropriate for deeds disc
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 861 ith / chaste prayers; nor does what I say deceive me. / For this
BEDE.VmetCuthbert.Vulg 1 880 om his companion’s heart: / ‘What, I ask, is the reason that so
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 232 upon rulers, urging upon them what Jesus commanded. / He soon too
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 294 d have read for a long time? / What about Columba, in whom the un
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 317 e, he undertook with humility / what ruling chance commanded. Ther
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 390 together with hostile cries. / What more can I say? As often as t
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 396 able to regain through deceit what they had lost. / While he, hav
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 436 ently, he deservedly obtained what was agreed, and his right was
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 481 , which were friendly to him. / What then? Shall I speak or shall
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 619 ler. / The fortunate man heard what the king was preparing agains
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 629 ishop did not want to give up what he had begun, / regardless of w
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 630 t he had begun, / regardless of what perversity false piety was co
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 683 / Why do you disturb the sea? What? Do you hide the nets of Chary
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 748 ween brothers, / in order that what is old might not perish throu
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 754 ll decide by your pious words what the submitted order should cu
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 755 d order should cultivate, / and what all the churches should culti
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 807 ered together, / ready to hear what the Roman summit would tell t
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 814 in their raging breasts, / and (what wickedness!) they beguiled th
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 848 flames during the night-time. What will be inferior / about the eq
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 882 nd, compelled by the shock of what had happened, / he spoke, maki
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 897 nvil is struck! / Wicked hand, what benefit does it supply to har
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1091 holding the sacred offices. / What a company of bad advisers! Wh
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1202 tery waves. / Ignoble peoples, what does it benefit you to want t
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1210 the cruel pit. / Regardless of what apocryphal texts they have wr
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1217 he might perceive in reality what now he longs for with patient
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1238 read, they feared to wait for what might actually happen, / and t
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1255 been added to you. / She knows what payment you are making to Pet
FRITHEGOD.BrevVWilfred 1310 point, / I have described with what great sweat he obtained a shr
N.MiraculaNyniae 62 om the world should venerate, what shall I sing / worthy of you,
N.MiraculaNyniae 128 in dark shadows; he will pay / what he deserves with his death, a
N.MiraculaNyniae 165 hunderer. / Who is your father, what perpetrator did this deed?”
N.MiraculaNyniae 282 in to sing in a brief account what needs to be told, / which afte
N.MiraculaNyniae 339 ed. / When that man recognised what lively virtue had done, / he he
N.MiraculaNyniae 414 y likewise recognised at once what the angel had sung to them be
N.MiraculaNyniae 493 preached powerfully in words what he fulfilled in deeds, / and w