Associations to the word «Harken»

Wiktionary

HARKEN, verb. Alternative spelling of hearken ‘to listen, hear, regard’, more common form in the US.
HARKEN, verb. (figuratively) (US) To hark back, to return or revert (to a subject etc.), to allude to, to evoke, to long or pine for (a past event or era).
HARKEN BACK, verb. Alternative form of hearken back

Dictionary definition

HARKEN, verb. Listen; used mostly in the imperative.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope