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
Tell him that his little chair Nestles where the sunbeams meet, That the shoes he used to wear Yearn to kiss his dimpled feet.
From Second Book of Verse by Field, Eugene
The saints who give thee every thought, Whose every act for thee is wrought, Yearn for thine everlasting peace, For bliss with thee, that cannot cease.
From Translations of Shakuntala and Other Works by Kalidasa
Yearn ye not that Allah may forgive you?
From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Ali, Abdullah Yusuf
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
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"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
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