All 10 Uses of
anguish
in
Faust -- Part 1 -- translated by Theil
- Shades fondly loved appear, your train attending,
And visions fair of many a blissful day;
First-love and friendship their fond accents blending,
Like to some ancient, half-expiring lay;
Sorrow revives, her wail of anguish sending
Back o'er life's devious labyrinthine way,
And names the dear ones, they whom Fate bereaving
Of life's fair hours, left me behind them grieving.†anguish = extreme pain, suffering, or distress
- O full-orb'd moon, did but thy rays
Their last upon mine anguish gaze!†*
- Then rich in hope, with faith sincere,
With sighs, and hands in anguish press'd,
The end of that sore plague, with many a tear,
From heaven's dread Lord, I sought to wrest.†
- Him will I drag through life's wild waste,
Through scenes of vapid dulness, where at last
Bewilder'd, he shall falter, and stick fast;
And, still to mock his greedy haste,
Viands and drink shall float his craving lips beyond—Vainly he'll seek refreshment, anguish-tost,
And were he not the devil's by his bond,
Yet must his soul infallibly be lost!†
- The house with rage he scratch'd and gnaw'd,
In vain,—he fast was Sinking;
Full many an anguish'd bound he gave,
Nothing the hapless brute could save,
As if his frame love wasted.†
- BRANDER
By torture driven, in open day,
The kitchen he invaded,
Convulsed upon the hearth he lay,
With anguish sorely jaded;
The poisoner laugh'd, Ha!†anguish = extreme pain, suffering, or distress
- FAUST
Thou monster, does not see that this
Pure soul, possessed by ardent love,
Full of the living faith,
To her of bliss
The only pledge, must holy anguish prove,
Holding the man she loves, Fore-doomed to endless death!†
- Ah, wheresoe'er I go,
With woe, with woe, with woe,
My anguish'd breast is aching!†
- When early in my chamber
Shone bright the rising morn,
I sat there on my pallet,
My heart with anguish torn.†anguish = extreme pain, suffering, or distress
- Delivered over to the power of evil spirits and the judgment of unpitying humanity I—And me, the while, thou wert lulling with tasteless dissipations, concealing from me her growing anguish, and leaving her to perish without help!†
Definition:
extreme pain, suffering, or distress (of body or mind)