Read full poem →Know, Settle, cloy'd with custard and with praise,
Is gather'd to the dull of ancient days,
Dictionary Entry
To fill up or choke up; to stop up.
Origin
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “cloy”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →All joys else might sooner pall or cloy
Love than this which inly takes its fill,
Read full poem →And from my mistress' bosom let me rise! 20
Let one wench cloy me with sweet love's delight,
If one can do't; if not, two every night.
Read full poem →That thus hath pent and mewd me in a prison ;
For such outrageous passions cloy my soul,
As with the wings of rancour and disdain
Read full poem →A strain of the earth's sweet being in the beginning
In Eden garden.—Have, get, before it cloy,
Before it cloud, Christ, lord, and sour with sinning,
Read full poem →All breathing human passion far above,
That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd,
A burning forehead, and a parching tongue.
Read full poem →Where sorrow treads on joy,
Where sweet things soonest cloy,
Where faiths are built on dust,
Read full poem →Where sorrow treads on joy,
Where sweet things soonest cloy,
Where faiths are built on dust,
Read full poem →Sheen will tarnish, honey cloy,
And merry is only a mask of sad,
Read full poem →Those gilded trifles of the hour, 15
Those painted nothings sure to cloy:
He dies forgot, his name no son shall bear