As when the driver’s torturing hook Goads on an elephant, the look Of sire and mother in despair Was more than Ráma’s heart could bear.
What goads him on is the lyric moment in his enthusiasm, that second of the highest tension when passion, if it is not to shatter the frame of its generator, must have explosive words.
And what the spoil That tempts their toil, The bait that goads them on to fight?
Knowledge and skill are as dust, and self as nothing, compared with the Love that goads and urges him on.
Helpless am I; Dared I to weep, then never would run dry The fountains of my grief: I cannot speak: Even the occupation that I seek Goads me and wearies me.
Sometimes her beauty goads and maddens me, I cannot bear her cruel loveliness, But turn her mirror that she may not see; Why should I let her double my distress?
Does the iron fiat of the constitution doom it to such imbecility that it cannot arrest the process that made them "enemies," and still goads to deadlier hate by fiery trials, and day by day adds others to their number?
Such goads The slow and loit'ring need; that they be found Not wanting, when their hour of watch returns.
Bet ne'er the Furies or of Thebes or Troy With such fell cruelty were seen, their goads Infixing in the limbs of man or beast, As now two pale and naked ghost I saw That gnarling wildly scamper'd, like the swine Excluded from his stye.
The crisis of bereavement has an acute pang which goads to exertion, the desolate after-feeling sometimes paralyses.
The fact is, what goads and tortures me is not any anxiety of my own to publish another book, to have my name before the public, to get cash, etc.
When the dew rose I hurried in like feathers to the east, And saw nine hundred oxen driven through Meath With goads of iron, They're but three days from us.
Tell them who walk upon the floor of peace That I would die and go to her I love; The years like great black oxen tread the world, And God the herdsman goads them on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet.
That I would die and go to her I love, The years like great black oxen tread the world, And God the herdsman goads them on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet.
Our souls repent,--our lives but rarely change; Grief halts awhile, then goads us on to range.
It was observable that, in ploughing, they used goads of an extraordinary size.
He provokes the people, he goads them with every kind of insult added to every kind of injury, and then rushes into the very jaws of danger, provoking a formidable foe by the display of a puny, insignificant force.
In war it strikes the foe, in peace it goads the steer.
So through the woods, the wild-beasts' lairs between, With Bacchanalian goads Alecto drives the Queen.
They wear broad flaming bits in their mouth and submit to harnesses and goads of a tawny hue, being fiery.
OONA Tell them to walk upon the floor of peace, That I would die and go to her I love; The years like great black oxen tread the world, And God the herdsman goads them on behind, And I am broken by their passing feet.
OONA Tell them who walk upon the floor of peace That I would die and go to her I love; The years like great black oxen tread the world, And God the herdsman goads them on behind And I am broken by their passing feet.
Why tell me that this, that, or the other step is not 'proper,' when you know that necessity goads me?
It was an event for the street gamins, and, had they not trailed close behind us through the city and given Mac occasional goads and twists of the tail, I doubt if I could have reached Harlem by midnight.
Then, with stout willow goads and howling invectives, we drove the braying animals into the flood and followed them, fording or swimming across the river.
What marvel then that wind and wave, Leander doth but burn to brave, When love, that goads him, guides!
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