Potential Titles: Yoke

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Yoked to this body by beauty - Ally Ang "Masculinity Ode"

Thy winged yoke in triumph - Benjamin West Ball "Ariel's Song"

Your plow is chained to a deadly yoke - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Plow"

Crushed me with an iron yoke - Stephen Vincent Benet "Poor Devil!"

Toiled like yoked black oxen - Stephen Vincent Benet "Road and Hills"

The yoke of absolute despair - Charlotte Bronte "Frances"

Yoking four jade dragons to a phoenix - "The Ch'u Tz'u: Encountering Sorrow" transl. by Burton Watson

Bent beneath a tyrant yoke - James H. Cousins "In the Giant's Ring, Belfast"

A work of all good yokes - Natalie Diaz "Skin-Light"

To wear the yoke of conscience - Ralph Waldo Emerson "The Park"

Who bore with patient heart the yoke - Moses ibn Ezra "Nachum: Spring Songs" transl. by Emma Lazarus

My eyes yoked to a blank space - Amaud Jamaul Johnson "This Bitter Earth"

Doomed beneath the yoke to bow - Fanny Kemble "An Invocation"

Yoke tossed off and sinking - Dante Micheaux "Outside, the Prophet"

Who best bear his mild yoke - John Milton "Service"

A yoke of honey in a glass of cooling milk - Valzhyna Mort "Singer"

Time's galling iron yoke - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "An Interlude"

My aching spirit to the yoke of truth - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "A Mountain Path"

Harsh the yoke that binds them - Algernon Swinburne "Death and Birth"

Kites and owls screech at the carriage yoke - Ts'ao Chih "Presented to Piao, the Prince of Pai-ma" transl. by Burton Watson

Wild steeds breaking the yoke - Henry van Dyke "Vera"


The yoke-freed oxen low - Emma Lazarus "In Exile"


My team unyoked, my fallow unsown - "Eamonn an Chnuic, or 'Ned of the Hill'" transl. by P.H. Pearse


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