Beowulf (Episode 11) (Anonymous Olde English Poems)
THEN from the moorland, by misty crags,with God's wrath laden, Grendel came.The monster was minded of mankind nowsundry to seize ...
THEN from the moorland, by misty crags,with God's wrath laden, Grendel came.The monster was minded of mankind nowsundry to seize ...
AND the lord of earls, to each that camewith Beowulf over the briny ways,an heirloom there at the ale-bench gave,precious ...
UNDER harness his heart then is hit indeedby sharpest shafts; and no shelter availsfrom foul behest of the hellish fiend. ...
I never did 'ave no use for Germans (said Bill the bosun to me,As he sat on the after hatchway ...
THUS seethed unceasing the son of Healfdenewith the woe of these days; not wisest menassuaged his sorrow; too sore the ...
THEN hastened those heroes their home to see,friendless, to find the Frisian land,houses and high burg. Hengest stillthrough the death-dyed ...
THEN sank they to sleep. With sorrow one boughthis rest of the evening, — as ofttime had happenedwhen Grendel guarded ...
STONE-BRIGHT the street: it showed the wayto the crowd of clansmen. Corselets glistenedhand-forged, hard; on their harness brightthe steel ring ...
PRELUDE OF THE FOUNDER OF THE DANISH HOUSELO, praise of the prowess of people-kingsof spear-armed Danes, in days long sped,we ...
NOT in any wise would the earls'-defen ce suffer that slaughterous stranger to live,useless deeming his days and yearsto men ...
Ho! says the Nation's purse is lean, Who fears for claim or bond or debt, When all the glories that ...
HROTHGAR spake, the Scyldings'-h elmet: —"For fight defensive, Friend my Beowulf,to succor and save, thou hast sought us here.Thy father's ...
Here Edward king, lord of the English,sent his soul strong in truth to Christ,in God's safekeeping, his ...
T' ground rises brantly to nor'-east,Wi' t' walls zigzaggin' ower t' intake-T' walls 'at wur builded first by t' Danes,Girt ...
Have you heard of one Humpty Dumpty How he fell with a roll and a rumble And curled up like ...
NOW, rallying once if ne'er again, With flag at half-mast flown, A people in dire need and strain Mans Tyra's ...
Reportless Subjects, to the Quick Continual addressed -- But foreign as the Dialect Of Danes, unto the rest. Reportless Measures, ...
Poets with whom I learned my trade. Companions of the Cheshire Cheese, Here's an old story I've remade, Imagining 'twould ...
For a Man is to be looked upon in that which he excells as on a prospect. For there be ...
Remember the Glories of Brien the Brave Remember the glories of Brien the brave, Though the days of the hero ...
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