Anonymous - The Wife's Lament lyrics

Ic þis giedd wrece — bi me ful geomorre, mīnre sylfre sīð. — Ic þæt secgan mæg hwæt ic yrmþa gebad, — siþþan ic up weox, nīwes oþþe ealdes, — nomā þonne nu. Ā ic wite wonn — mīnra wræcsīþa. Ærest mīn hlāford gewāt — heonan of leodum ofer yþa gelāc; — hæfde ic uhtceare hwær min leodfruma — londes wære. Ðā ic me feran gewāt — folgað secan, wineleas wraecca — for mīnre weþearfe, ongunnon þæt þæs monnes — māgas hycgan þurh dyrne geþoht — þæt hy todlæden unc, pæt wit gewīdost — in woruldrice lifdon lāðlicost; — and mec longade. Het mec hlāford min — her eard niman; āhte ic leofra lyt — on þissum londstede, holdra freonda; — forþon is mīn hyge geomor. Ðā ic me ful gemæcne — monnan funde, heardsæligne, — hygegeomorne, mod mīþendne, — morþor hycgendne, blīþe gebræo. — Ful oft wit beotedan pæt unc ne gedælde — nemne deað āna, o wiht elles; — eft is þæt onhworfen, is nu fornumen — swā hit no wære freondscipe uncer. — Sceal ic feor ge neah mīnes felaleofan — fæhðu dreogan. Heht mec mon wunian — on wuda bearwe, under āctreo — þām eorðscræfe. Eald is þes eorðsele, — eal ic eom oflongad; sindon dena dimme, — duna uphea, bitre burgtunas — brerum beweaxne, wīc wynna leas. — Ful oft mec her wrāþe begeat fromsīþ frean. — Frynd sind on eorþan, leofe lifgende, — leger weardiað, þonne ic on uhtan — āna gonge under āctreo — geond þās eorðscrafu. Þaer ic sittan mot — sumorlangne dæg, þaere ic wepan mæg — mīne wræcsiþas, earfoþa fela; — forþon ic aefre ne mæg þaere modceare — mīnre gerestan ne ealles þæs longaþes — þe mec on þissum līfe begeat. Ā scyle geong mon — wesan geomormod, heard heortan geþoht; — swylce habban sceal blīþe gebaero — eac þon breostceare, sinsorgna gedreag; — sy æt him sylfum gelong eal his worulde wyn. — Sy ful wīde fāh feorres folclondes — þæt mīn freond siteð under stānhliþe — storme behrīmed, wine werigmod, — wætre beflowen on dreorsele, — dreogeð se mīn wine micle modceare; — he gemon to oft wynlicran wīc. — Wā bið þām þe sceal of langoþe — leofes ābīdan.