Read full poem →Lie you easy, dream you light,
And sleep you fast for aye;
Dictionary Entry
Achieved without great effort; presenting no difficulty.
In a Sentence
“Learning to ride a bicycle can be easy if you practice regularly and have someone to help you balance.”
Origin
From Old French aisé, past participle of aisier 'to ease'.
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “easy”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Empty heads and tongues a-talking
Make the rough road easy walking,
And the feather pate of folly
Read full poem →And all the writer lives in every line;
His easy art may happy nature seem,
Trifles themselves are elegant in him.
Read full poem →And uncorrupted, even among the great:
A safe companion, and an easy friend,
Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end.
Read full poem →And uncorrupted, ev'n among the Great:
A safe Companion, and an easy Friend,
Unblam'd thro' Life, lamented in thy End.
Read full poem →Learning not vain, and wisdom not severe,
With greatness easy, and with wit sincere;
With just description show the soul divine,
Read full poem →Who strives to please the fair against her will:
Be kind, and make him in his wishes easy,
Who in your own despite has strove to please ye.
Read full poem →And his refulgent Queen, with powers combined,
Of broken troops an easy conquest find.
Clubs, Diamonds, Hearts, in wild disorder seen,
Read full poem →enjoy the most intimate familiarities with these gentle Spirits, upon a
condition very easy to all true Adepts, an inviolate preservation of
Chastity.