Emily Dickinson Lexicon

WAK'EN, v.t. [wa'kn.]

1. To excite or rouse from sleep. Go, waken Eve. – Milton.
2. To excite to action or motion. Then Homer's and Tyrtæus' martial muse / Waken'd the world. – Roscommon.
3. To excite; to produce; to rouse into action. They introduce / Their sacred song, and waken raptures high. – Milton.