Read full poem →Goaded and harassed in the factory
That tears our life up into bits of days
Dictionary Entry
To fatigue or to tire with repeated and exhausting efforts.
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Poetry examples for “harassed”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →The vigilance to which we clung.
Shrewd, hallowed, harassed, and among
The mysteries that are untold,
Read full poem →Thou treacherous medicine, reckoned pure,
Thou quackery of the harassed heart,
That kills what it pretends to cure,
Read full poem →amusement of your forefathers, may Pleasure ever be of your party: and
may social joy await your return! When harassed in courts or camps
with the jostlings of bad men and bad measures, may the honest
Read full poem →To William Hayley, Esq. March 19, 1793. Complains
of being harassed by a multiplicity of business; his
progress in Homer; reference to Mazarin's epitaph 413
