Old English Poems Translated into the Original Meter Together with Short Selections from Old English Prose
Newton
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- PrefaceSample
- 5 His ancestors sprang.
- 90 The choicest of bracelets
- 10 When she clearly discovered
- 35 Of myself and my sorrows
- 30 He shall flee from this field
- 30 Well may the brave warriors
- THE FIGHT AT FINNSBURG
- I. For Bewitched Land
- 45 Then say
- 10 And they sent their spears
- I. A Storm
- 10 Steep over the head.
- 35 Strong on my storm-track.
- 65 And lift on my back
- VIII. A Nightingale
- 5 The hairs that I had.
- 25 With kindness and favors
- 10 Words of wisdom.
- EXETER GNOMES
- 80 Holly flames on the fire.
- 95 The light linden-wood.
- THE FATES OF MEN
- 20 Mournful in mind
- 70 Earns his honors.
- THE WANDERER
- 15 The weary in heart
- 25 In sadness have sought
- 85 So has wasted this world
- 95 Alas the prince’s pride!
- THE SEAFARER
- 55 Heavy to the heart.
- 25 Our faith and our friendship.
- 50 In his lonely lodging.
- 15 The maker of this message
- THE RUIN
- 15 Splendidly
- II. CHRISTIAN POETRY
- 5 He first raised up
- GENESIS A
- SELECTIONS FROM EXODUS
- SELECTIONS FROM THE CHRIST
- 5 To join in one
- 70 How woeful men
- SELECTIONS FROM THE ELENE
- 90 Gorgeous with gold
- THE DREAM OF THE ROOD
- 80 The most trying of torments.
- 15 Then they sought the assembly
- 25 How the stalwart and strong-minded
- 55 The wisest of women;
- 90 Behead this hideous monster.
- 30 As sages say
- 90 He is said to watch
- THE GRAVE
- 25 The hard hand-play
- 40 To boast of the battle-play;
- THE BATTLE OF MALDON
- 40 We will go with the gold
- 95 Into whose power shall pass
- 45 The work of the Father:
- THE VOYAGES OF OHTHERE AND WULFSTAN
- 70 He reported that the land of the Northmen was very
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