All 10 Uses of
wrath
in
Oedipus King of Thebes (translated by: Murray)
- _ Nay; the wrath of any stone Would rise at him.†
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- 'Fore God, I am in wrath; and speak I will, Nor stint what I see clear.†
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- Lord Oedipus, these be but words of wrath, All thou hast spoke and all the Prophet hath.†
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- For that across thy path Rising, a mother's and a father's wrath, Two-handed, shod with fire, from the haunts of men Shall scourge thee, in thine eyes now light, but then Darkness.†
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- For the mountain hath spoken, a voice hath flashed from amid the snows, That the wrath of the world go seek for the man whom no man knows.†
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- _ Yet strange, passing strange, the wise augur and his lore; And my heart it cannot speak; I deny not nor assent, But float, float in wonder at things after and before; Did there lie between their houses some old wrath unspent, That Corinth against Cadmus should do murder by the way?†
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- If words were spoken, it was scarce the soul That spoke them: 'twas some sudden burst of wrath.†
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- I see thy mercy moving full of hate And slow; thy wrath came swift and desperate.†
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- And I in wrath Smote him that pushed me—'twas a groom who led The horses.†
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- For sudden, with a roar of wrath, Burst Oedipus upon us.†
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Definition:
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(wrath) extreme anger or angry punishment