Both Uses
vex
in
Song of Myself
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- Showing the best and dividing it from the worst age vexes age,
Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they
discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.†*vexes = annoys - Ever the hard unsunk ground,
Ever the eaters and drinkers, ever the upward and downward sun, ever
the air and the ceaseless tides,
Ever myself and my neighbors, refreshing, wicked, real,
Ever the old inexplicable query, ever that thorn'd thumb, that
breath of itches and thirsts,
Ever the vexer's hoot!†vexer = someone who annoys
Definitions:
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(1)
(vex) to annoy, worry, or frustrate -- especially by being difficult or persistent
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)