All 24 Uses of "anguish" in "The Odyssey" - Auto-generated

Leave me alone to pine away in anguish ...
Unless, of course, you think my noble father Odysseus
did the Achaean army damage, deliberate harm,
and to pay me back you'd do me harm, deliberately
setting these parasites against me.†

p. 95.7 *

anguish = extreme pain, suffering, or distress

Off he sat on a headland, weeping there as always,
wrenching his heart with sobs and groans and anguish,
gazing out over the barren sea through blinding tears.†

p. 155.3

In the nights, true,
he'd sleep with her in the arching cave—he had no choice—
unwilling lover alongside lover all too willing ...
But all his days he'd sit on the rocks and beaches,
wrenching his heart with sobs and groans and anguish,
gazing out over the barren sea through blinding tears.†

p. 157.5

Always insisting, pressing, it never lets us forget—
destroyed as I am, my heart racked with sadness,
sick with anguish, still it keeps demanding,
'Eat, drink!'†

p. 186.7

But now the glorious crippled Smith was drawing near ...
he'd turned around, miles short of the Lemnos coast,
for the Sungod kept his watch and told Hephaestus all,
so back he rushed to his house, his heart consumed with anguish.†

p. 201.3

A huge swell reared up as the rock went plunging under,
yes, and the tidal breaker drove us out to our island's
far shore where all my well-decked ships lay moored,
clustered, waiting, and huddled round them, crewmen
sat in anguish, waiting, chafing for our return.†

p. 228.7

She heard my voice,
she opened her gleaming doors at once and stepped forth,
inviting me in, and in I went, all anguish now ...
She led me in to sit on a silver-studded chair,
ornately carved, with a stool to rest my feet.†

p. 240.3

Back to the swift ship at the water's edge we went,
our spirits deep in anguish, faces wet with tears.†

p. 248.7

"Now down we came to the ship at the water's edge,
we hauled and launched her into the sunlit breakers first,
stepped the mast in the black craft and set our sail
and loaded the sheep aboard, the ram and ewe,
then we ourselves embarked, streaming tears,
our hearts weighed down with anguish ...
But Circe, the awesome nymph with lovely braids
who speaks with human voice, sent us a hardy shipmate,
yes, a fresh following wind ruffling up in our wake,
bellying out our sail to drive our blue prow on as we,
securing the running gear from stem to stern, sat back
while the wind and helmsman kept her true on course.†

p. 249.4

But when summer comes and the bumper crops of harvest,
any spot on the rising ground of his vineyard rows
he makes his bed, heaped high with fallen leaves,
and there he lies in anguish ...
with his old age bearing hard upon him, too,
and his grief grows as he longs for your return.†

p. 255.9

Lashing a noose to a steep rafter, there she hanged aloft,
strangling in all her anguish, leaving her son to bear
the world of horror a mother's Furies bring to life.†

p. 258.5

That moment soothing slumber fell from my eyes
and down I went to our ship at the water's edge
but on my way, nearing the long beaked craft,
the smoky savor of roasts came floating up around me ...
I groaned in anguish, crying out to the deathless gods:
'Father Zeus!†

p. 282.7

He sprang to his feet and, scanning his own native country,
groaned, slapped his thighs with his flat palms
and Odysseus cried in anguish:
"Man of misery, whose land have I lit on now?†

p. 293.1

—
goddess Athena answered, eyes afire—
"Free your mind of all that anguish now.†

p. 298.4

But the bright-eyed goddess reassured him firmly:
"No need for anguish, trust me, not for him—
I escorted your son myself
so he might make his name by sailing there.†

p. 300.3

And the anguish welled up in Telemachus' breast
for the blow his father took, yet he let no tears
go rolling down his face—he just shook his head,
silent, his mind churning with thoughts of bloody work.†

p. 370.3

Amphinomus made his way back through the hall,
his heart sick with anguish, shaking his head,
fraught with grave forebodings ...
but not even so could he escape his fate.†

p. 380.9

She woke, touched her cheek with a hand, and mused,
"Ah, what a marvelous gentle sleep, enfolding me
in the midst of all my anguish!†

p. 382.5

But despite that, her heart
felt nothing for all her mistress' anguish now.†

p. 386.4

But he took up his post by the flaring braziers,
tending the fires closely, looking after them all,
though the heart inside him stirred with other things,
ranging ahead, now, to all that must be done ...
But Athena had no mind to let the brazen suitors
hold back now from their heart-rending insults—
she meant to make the anguish cut still deeper
into the core of Laertes' son Odysseus.†

p. 387.1

As soon as sleep came on him, loosing his limbs,
slipping the toils of anguish from his mind,
his devoted wife awoke and,
sitting up in her soft bed, returned to tears.†

p. 412.3

But Athena had no mind to let the brazen suitors
hold back now from their heart-rending insults—
she meant to make the anguish cut still deeper
into the core of Laertes' son Odysseus.†

p. 419.9

Not till then did her mind conceive that madness,
blinding madness that caused her anguish, ours as well.†

p. 462.9

He told how he reached
Ogygia's shores and the nymph Calypso held him back,
deep in her arching caverns, craving him for a husband—
cherished him, vowed to make him immortal, ageless, all his days,
yes, but she never won the heart inside him, never ...
then how he reached the Phaeacians—heavy sailing there—
who with all their hearts had prized him like a god
and sent him off in a ship to his own beloved land,
giving him bronze and hoards of gold and robes ...
and that was the last he told her, just as sleep
overcame him ...sleep loosing his limbs,
slipping the toils of anguish from his mind.†

p. 466.7

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