In seasons of grief to my God I'll repair, When my heart is o'erwhelmed with sorrow and care: From the end of the earth unto thee will I cry, Lead me to the Rock that is higher than I!
Deep is the desolation of the race benighted Fast bound in ignorance, o'erwhelmed with guilt and fear; Folly and superstition every hope have blighted, Save where the rays of truth divine appear.
Thou hast appeased My friends, and in the dust o'erwhelmed my foes; From foreign yoke redeemed my cities.
The poet says that the very sight of her o'erwhelmed and appalled him.
She with such fear O'erwhelmed me, at the sight of her appalled, That of the height all hope I lost.
She is o'erwhelmed quite, sunk in the Serbonian bogs of dark despair.
Let Gildo flee headlong before him whom he put to flight and fear him whom he o’erwhelmed with the murder of his children.
Nay, o’erwhelmed in darkness it will no more advantage its obscure possessor than a vessel with no oars, a silent lyre, an unstrung bow.
Wayfarers Crossing the passes with rich merchandise My creatures, hid behind the crags, o'erwhelmed With rocks hurled downward.
LI All the others that had plunged into the flood In the end, o'erwhelmed by those wild waters died.
Then fell the queen, bereft of sense Upon the earth, o'erwhelmed with grief and pain, Seeing her husband's misery.
Nor has death thus overcome you, Nor some other fate o'erwhelmed you.
What shall I say, o’erwhelmed with shame To cheer the miserable dame?
As fire in summer rages through The forests thick with dry bamboo, So will my fawn eyed love consume My soul o’erwhelmed with thoughts of gloom.
There Angad stood o’erwhelmed with grief And many a lord and warrior chief; And, ranged in densest mass around, Their tree-armed legions held the ground.
But when Sugríva saw her weep O’erwhelmed in sorrow’s rushing deep, Swift through his bosom pierced the sting Of anguish for the fallen king.
Thus wept and wailed in deep distress The grim misshapen giantess: Before her brother’s feet she lay O’erwhelmed with grief, and swooned away.
O’erwhelmed with woe thy lady lies, The hot tears streaming from her eyes.
O’erwhelmed beneath the crush of woe, And as upon the king he thought, He fell upon the earth distraught.
Thus Raghu’s son in piteous tone, O’erwhelmed with sorrow, made his moan.
Here An iron crop o'erwhelmed me, and uprose Bristling with pointed javelins.
O'erwhelmed with odds, we perish; first of all, Struck down by fierce Peneleus by the fane Of warlike Pallas, doth Coroebus fall.
Ask not what pain; what fortune or what fate O'erwhelmed them, nor their torments seek to know.
No conflict hand to hand Was granted them, by lances thrown from far And sidelong sword-thrusts slain: nor wounds alone, But clouds of weapons falling from the air By weight of iron o'erwhelmed them.
Curio he bids Cross over to Sicilian cities, where Or ocean by a sudden rise o'erwhelmed The land, or split the isthmus right in twain, Leaving a path for seas.
And I, my friends, o'erwhelmed with terror, told All that I knew of that which he had done.
O'erwhelmed in depths of woe, Upon the Tree of scorn Hangs the Redeemer of mankind, With racking anguish torn.
This said, the King, o'erwhelmed in deep despair, Passed the dread night in agony and prayer.
For when the hateful brood of sorrow rising through space, with all its attendant horrors, meeting the mind o'erwhelmed by sleep and death, shall seize its prey, who then shall waken it?
O'erwhelmed and crushed, I bore unmoved Whate'er befell, for I was stunned with grief.
O'erwhelmed in hopeless ruin, it is sweet To see none happy.
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