longed

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Longed so hard and bitterly for it that it became some taut tripwire strung within me where no one could see.

From Newsweek • May 28, 2012

Salt tears, and strange to shed, Over and o'er; Tears to my lady dead, Love do we send, Longed for, rememberèd, Lover and friend!

From The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 Sorrow and Consolation by Carman, Bliss

Hickety, pickety, John Cabot Longed to discover a brand-new spot.

From Harper's Round Table, September 17, 1895 by Various

Many thus have I so buried; I have also harboured many On the river's deep cool bottom In my crystal water-palace; Lodged them well so that they never Longed for man, nor for returning.

From The Trumpeter of Säkkingen A Song from the Upper Rhine. by Scheffel, Joseph Victor von

She, by his loving words consoled, Longed her dire purpose to unfold, And sought with sharper pangs to wring The bosom of her lord the king.

From The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verse by Griffith, Ralph T. H. (Ralph Thomas Hotchkin)