strives

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Now each stern host full front to front appears, And one joint shout heaven's airy concave tears: A dreadful pause ensues, while conscious pride Strives on each face the heart-felt doubt to hide.

From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de

Now all the people grieve and groan Through Queen Kaikeyí's deed alone, Who, having dared this deed of sin, Strives for herself the gain to win.”

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)

He ceased; the seer, impatient of control, Strives, like a frenzied Bacchant, in her cell, To shake the mighty deity from her soul.

From The Æneid of Virgil Translated into English Verse by E. Fairfax Taylor by Taylor, Edward Fairfax

One blown sail beneath her, hardly making Forth, wild-winged for harbourage yet to be, Strives and leaps and pants beneath the breaking    Wind and sea.

From A Century of Roundels by Swinburne, Algernon Charles

The fire that on the Magi's altars glowed Spake to his soul in symbols and expressed The immortal purity that without rest Strives with the mortal grossness whose abode Is in the heart.

From Pan and Æolus: Poems by Musgrove, Charles Hamilton