yearn
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From Time Magazine Archive
Young men and women, noble and tender, Yearn for each other, faith truly plight, Promise to cherish, comfort and honour; Vow that makes duty one with delight.
From Victories of Love by Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton
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
The scenery of the Yearn becomes even sylvan now; and though still sweet its murmurs to our ear, they no longer sink into our hearts.
From Recreations of Christopher North, Volume I (of 2) by Wilson, John Lyde
How will its love for thee, as I depart, Yearn for thine ear to drink its last deep token!
From My Three Days in Gilead by Hoenshel, Elmer Ulysses
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"The Gift of the Magi" by O. Henry
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