Read full poem →And wreaths of hay his sunburnt temples shade:
Oft in his harden'd hand a goad he bears,
Like one who late unyoked the sweating steers:
Dictionary Entry
A long, pointed stick used to prod animals.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. goadgoad elephant
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Poetry examples for “goad”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Could he have made Priscilla cease
To goad him for what God left out,
Llewellyn would have been as mild
Read full poem →Ten thousand victims madly bleed.
They dream that tyrants goad them there
With poisonous war to taint the air:
Read full poem →with his head bent down, and the sweat streaming from his flanks. The
countryman was urging him forward with a goad.
Read full poem →Dull sounds the Bard's bemudded lyre;
Nathless Revenge and Ire the Poet goad 5
To pour his imprecations on the road.
Read full poem →WHILE SMOKE-BLACK FREIGHTS ON THE DOUBLE-TRACKED RAILROAD,
DRIVEN AS THOUGH BY THE FOUL-FIEND'S OX-GOAD,
SCREAMING TO THE WEST COAST, SCREAMING TO THE EAST,