Able Muse - riddle 27 https://www.ablemuse.com/taxonomy/term/843/843? en Riddle 27 https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/poetry-translation/bertha-rogers/anglo-saxon-riddle-27? <p>I am treasure&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; lofted from the forest,<br /> cliff-rims, rolling hills,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; town slopes.<br /> All day wings&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; lift me in the shaking wind,<br /> slip me through&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; the edge of a land-ship,<br /> sweet sanctuary.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Then a man abducts me,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /> carries me to the cauldron.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bathed, <br /> I bind and beat men,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; draw down&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; <br /> both young and old,&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; rip and ravage,<p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/poetry-translation/bertha-rogers/anglo-saxon-riddle-27?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/poetry-translation/bertha-rogers/anglo-saxon-riddle-27?#comments Poetry Translation anglo saxon riddles anglo-saxon bertha rogers exeter book old english poems riddle 27 translation v9 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 18:27:02 +0000 Administrator 617 at https://www.ablemuse.com Bertha Rogers https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/bio/bertha-rogers? <p>More than 250 of Bertha Rogers's poems appear in journals and anthologies, including <em>Barrow Street, The MacGuffin, Nimrod International Journal, The Louisville Review, Cimarron Review, Green Mountains Review, ONTHEBUS, The Same, Rattapallax, Pivot</em>, <em>BigCityLit</em>, and others. Her collections include <em>Even the Hemlock: Poe</em>(chapbook, Snark Press, IL, 2004); <em>A House of Corners</em> (Three Conditions Press, Maryland Poetry Review Chapbook Contest Winner, 2000); and <em>&nbsp;Sleeper, You Wake</em> (Mellen, NY 1991).<p><a href="https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/bio/bertha-rogers?">read more</a></p> https://www.ablemuse.com/v9/bio/bertha-rogers?#comments Bios anglo-saxon bertha rogers bio poems poetry translation riddle 29 riddle 15 riddle 24 riddle 27 riddle 37 riddle-poems riddles v8 Thu, 15 Jul 2010 07:42:10 +0000 Administrator 614 at https://www.ablemuse.com