Read full poem →The smiles of harlots, and the tears of heirs,
Cages for gnats, and chains to yoke a flea,
Dried butterflies, and tomes of casuistry.
Dictionary Entry
Frame around the neck, and related senses.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. yokeupon yokeyoke foreignyoke heavyyoke spanish
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Poetry examples for “yoke”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Harsh the yoke that binds them, strange the girth
Seems that girds them each with each: yet whether
Read full poem →I'll hate, if I can; if not, love 'gainst my will,
Bulls hate the yoke, yet what they hate have still.
I fly her lust, but follow beauty's creature,
Read full poem →The painful hind by thee to field is sent;
Slow oxen early in the yoke are pent.
Thou coz'nest boys of sleep, and dost betray them
Read full poem →With arms to conquer armless men is base.
Yoke Venus' Doves, put myrtle on thy hair,
Vulcan will give thee chariots rich and fair:
Read full poem →And ripe-eared corn with sharp-edged scythes to fell.
She first constrained bulls' necks to bear the yoke,
And untilled ground with crooked ploughshares broke.
Read full poem →Or upward roll as sacrificial smoke
To liberate my people from its yoke!
Read full poem →Their joy in man and nature gone,
Who sing ‘O easy yoke of Christ!’
But find ’tis hard to get it on;
Read full poem →Without constraint, without regret;
The wedded yoke that each had donn'd
Seeming a sanction, not a bond.
Read full poem →It is but when you proffer more
The yoke weighs heavy and chafes sore.
It's weary work enforcing love