Unfruitful

The only charm unchosen, "For Unfruitful Land", was long and repetitive, comprising lengthy instructions in prose and then the spoken invocations in verse, composed, like all Anglo-Saxon poetry, in hemistichs.

Nick Laird enters the spirit of Anglo-Saxon poetry Nick Laird 2010

In "For Unfruitful Land", a farmer's fields aren't cropping well (perhaps because "some untoward thing is done upon them by warlock or witchcraft"), and the speaker of the charm has the answer.

Nick Laird enters the spirit of Anglo-Saxon poetry Nick Laird 2010

Unfruitful professors are unfaithful professors; professors, and no more.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

Unfruitful Christians must be awakened by the terrors of the law, which break up the fallow ground, and then encouraged by the promises of the gospel, which are warming and fattening, as manure to the tree.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

Note, Unfruitful professors of religion, if after long unfruitfulness they will repent, and amend, and bring forth fruit, shall find all is well.

Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume V (Matthew to John) 1721

'Unfruitful works of darkness' is pretty damn creative.

Pam's House Blend - Front Page sput 2009

And high Bojador; Zara too difplays Unfruitful deferts; Gambia's wave inifles An ouzy coail, and peftilential ills Diffufes wide; behind are burning fands, -

The works of the English poets; with prefaces, biographical and critical 1790

Fourth Council of Lateran on Unfruitful Loans and Usury, The Speeches of Sir Michael Hicks-Beach and Mr. Brodrick (now Lord Midleton), The

On Nothing and Kindred Subjects Hilaire Belloc 1911