Read full poem →A little filled thee, and for love of talk,
Thy mouth to taste of many meats did balk. 30
Nuts were thy food, and poppy caused thee sleep,
Dictionary Entry
An uncultivated ridge formed in the open field system, caused by the action of ploughing.
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “balk”
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Read full poem →Nor know I whether I should herd
With girls or wives, or sadlier balk
Maids' merriment or matrons' talk.
Read full poem →Enwrapped of this face of you, frail little frame of you,
And think of your work--how nothing could balk you
Or quench you or damp you. How you twisted and turned,
Read full poem →Descried by cunning Men
To balk thee of thy sacred Prey --
Advancing to thy Den --
Read full poem →When our love was true—
But he does not balk
His determined walk,
Read full poem →If you blind your eyes with tears, you will not see the President’s marshal;
If you groan such groans, you might balk the government cannon.
Read full poem →No danger shall balk Columbia's lovers,
If need be a thousand shall sternly immolate themselves for one.
Read full poem →The clouds already closing in upon me,
The voyage balk’d—the course disputed, lost,
I yield my ships to Thee.
Read full poem →are folded inseparably together, you love and death are,
Nor will I allow you to balk me any more with what I was calling life,
For now it is convey’d to me that you are the purports essential,
Read full poem →The shaved face, the unsteady eye, the impure complexion, if these
balk others they do not balk me,
The pert apparel, the deform’d attitude, drunkenness, greed,