afflicts

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Neptune, by prayer repentant rarely won, Afflicts the chief, to avenge his giant son, Whose visual orb Ulysses robb'd of light; Great Polypheme, of more than mortal might?

From The Odyssey by Pope, Alexander

Heav'n grant my fears are groundless! but, Maria, To think on what of late I daily see, Afflicts my soul.

From The Female Gamester A Tragedy by Howard, Gorges Edmond

But oh! this pining land Afflicts my sorrow-burdened soul, To think that to her past and present woe She must add this, which springs to her from you.

From The Seven Plays in English Verse by Sophocles

It is not that, nor any English brave, Afflicts me so, as doth his poisoned view, That is most false, should most of all be true.

From King Edward III by Shakespeare (spurious and doubtful works)

Deem ye it little that Saturnian Jove Afflicts me thus, and of my very best, Best boy deprives me?

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by Cowper, William