All 14 Uses
yearn
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Faust -- translated by Brooks
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- And now I feel a long-unwonted yearning
For that calm, pensive spirit-realm, to-day;
Like an Aeolian lyre, (the breeze returning,)
Floats in uncertain tones my lisping lay;
Strange awe comes o'er me, tear on tear falls burning,
The rigid heart to milder mood gives way!†Chpt Allyearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire - I nothing and yet all possessed,
Yearning for truth and in illusion blest.†Chpt All - whose voice rang through my ear,
Whose mighty yearning drew me from my sphere?†Chpt All - Prophetically rang the bells with solemn pealing;
A prayer was then the ecstasy of bliss;
A blessed and mysterious yearning
Drew me to roam through meadows, woods, and skies;
And, midst a thousand tear-drops burning,
I felt a world within me rise
That strain, oh, how it speaks youth's gleesome plays and feelings,
Joys of spring-festivals long past;
Remembrance holds me now, with childhood's fond appealings,
Back from the fatal step, the last.†Chpt All - Thence he launches, in sheer despite,
Sleet and hail in impotent showers,
O'er the green lawn as he takes his flight;
But the sun will suffer no white,
Everywhere waking the formative powers,
Living colors he yearns to spread;
Yet, as he finds it too early for flowers,
Gayly dressed people he takes instead.†Chpt Allyearns = strongly desires - Reason once more bids passion ponder,
Hope blooms again and smiles on man;
Back to life's rills he yearns to wander,
Ah!†Chpt All - And yet for this want a supply is provided,
To a higher than earth the soul is guided,
We are ready and yearn for revelation:
And where are its light and warmth so blent
As here in the New Testament?†Chpt Allyearn = strongly desire - I feel, this moment, a mighty yearning
To expound for once the ground text of all,
The venerable original
Into my own loved German honestly turning.†Chpt Allyearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire - Graces, adorning
Sons of the morning— Shadowy wavings— Float along over;
Yearnings and cravings
After them hover.†Chpt Allyearnings = strong desires - Up the high ridges
Some of them clamber,
Others are skimming
Sky-lakes of amber,
Others are swimming
Over the ocean;— All are in motion,
Life-ward all yearning,
Longingly turning
To the far-burning
Star-light of bliss.†Chpt Allyearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire - if that for which my heart
Yearns with invincible endeavor,
The crown of man, must hang unreached forever?†Chpt All *yearns = strongly desires - And call this glow, within me burning,
Infinite—endless—endless yearning,
Is that a devilish lying game?†Chpt Allyearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire - My bosom yearns
To behold him again.†Chpt Allyearns = strongly desires - All our loving, longing, yearning?†
Chpt Allyearning = strongly desiring; or a strong desire
Definitions:
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(1)
(yearn) have a strong desire -- often for something difficult or impossible to have
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)