Example Sentences

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The agonising flame Yearned in its vitals towards the quiet air And died in a little smoke.

From Poems New and Old by Freeman, John

Each voice an echo of a voice more dear, She saw a little Christ in every face; When lo, another woman, gliding near, Yearned o'er the tender life that filled the place.

From Anthology of Massachusetts Poets by Braithwaite, William Stanley

So Yearned Raschi to adorn the radiant girl Who sat at board before him, nor dared lift Shy, heavy lids from pupils black as grapes That dart the imprisoned sunshine from their core.

From The Poems of Emma Lazarus, Volume 2 Jewish poems: Translations by Lazarus, Emma

Underneath an apple-tree Sat a maiden and her lover; And the thoughts within her he Yearned, in silence, to discover.

From Farm Ballads by Carleton, Will

Not one dared wake him—yet each breast Yearned to be pillow to a thing So fair.

From Songs of Womanhood by Alma-Tadema, Laurence