yearn

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Yearn to have your weekly groceries delivered to your door? Peapod.com exists to make your grocery shopping easier--and it even lets you specify how ripe you like your bananas.

From Time Magazine Archive

But I, when blossom and fruit are gone, Yearn, steadfast, to the skies.

From A Hundred and Sixty Books by Washington Authors Some Other Writers Who are Contributors to Periodical Literature, Lines Worth Knowing by Heart by Various

Yearn, yėrn, v.i. to curdle, as milk—also Earn.—n.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various

“Thy proudest mother’s eyelids fill, As dares her gallant boy, And Plymouth Rock and Bunker Hill Yearn to thee, Illinois.”

From My Days and Nights on the Battle-Field by Coffin, Charles Carleton

Return, return! all night I see it burn, All night it prays like me, and lifts a twin Of palmed praying hands that meet and yearn— Yearn to the impleaded skies for thy return.

From Bulchevy's Book of English Verse by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir