heart-anguish

Yes, Shakespeare so loved his country, that he divined by intuition the heart-anguish of those who have lost theirs.

Sketch of Handel and Beethoven Two Lectures, Delivered in the Lecture Hall of the Wimbledon Village Club, on Monday Evening, Dec. 14, 1863; and Monday Evening, Jan. 11, 1864 Thomas Hanly Ball

Every one knows how often love makes us long to bear grief and pain for those dear to us; every one has seen a mother suffer, in grateful silence, both bodily pain and heart-anguish, in her child's stead, preferring that the child should never know.

Our Master Thoughts for Salvationists about Their Lord Bramwell Booth 1892

When Conrad was taken captive by the Pacha Seyd, Medora sat day after day expecting his return, and feeling the heart-anguish of hope deferred.

Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 Ebenezer Cobham Brewer 1853

It will likely cost you far more in money, more surely in heart-anguish and sorrow, to have your children entertained in these places full of snares, where corrupt art lavishes her designs with unsparing hand, to vitiate the young imagination and debase the mind, than to exalt her in her chaste and ennobling power in the sanctuary of your homes, as one of the means of home-culture, stimulating to virtue and stamping the character with genuine worth.

The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No 4, August, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy Various

While Caterina tried to forget that the clasp of a velvet paw may fatally crush, when the force of an angry lion is behind it: or -- if she remembered it too cruelly in the hours of her desolate midnight vigils, what could she do but ignore the insult, with a woman's power of endurance, that she might defer the day that should separate her from her work and her people with whom her last dim hopes of happiness were inextricably bound up: for to them she knew that she was still the Mother Queen -- "Nostra Madonna," and the dear title was a cure for much heart-anguish.

The Royal Pawn of Venice A Romance of Cyprus Lawrence Turnbull