1375 examples of yearns in sentences

It is a heart-knowledge of the difficulties and questionings of a race that yearns for virtue.

But the Lord, who cannot rest while one is miserable, still goes secretly to them, for His heart yearns after them.

Her soul yearns for the gay and giddy throng, and the halls of dazzling lights.

Thus shall thy young fair frame no longer be A prison, but a meetest dwelling-place, Full of all infinite delights, and dear As is its nest to the heaven-soaring lark, That yearns down, singing, to it from the sky.

Come to the lonely heart that yearns for thee, Come to the eyes that seek thee through salt tears!

mock me not!with night-struck eyes upraised, Still fronting full the dome where once I gazed, Yearns my unsighted soul through dimmest space Before it let these earth-mists sink abased; Let me behold the All before I die, Passing, swift-wing'd, into Eternity; Let me no more these shapeless shadows chase!

After this, he holds him to that prince's will, and yearns after no more than he grants him.

God's heart paternal yearns

Just as my heart yearns over the unloved, just so it sorrows for the ungifted who are doomed to the pangs of an undeceived self-estimate.

Then, if the great, illimitable heart of God thus yearns for the love of his creatures, the greater the heart of a human being, the more must he yearn for a fulness of love, a completion of the cycle of bonds and joys for which he was made.

The romantic yearns for the light that never was on sea or land and longs to attain the unfulfilled ambitions of the soul, even when these in full measure are not possible.

Perhaps in that distant time when the tragedy of to-day is only an old chapter in the story of the human race it will be seen that Dryden, after all, was not guilty of a grim jest, but that this mighty discord was the announcement of that final harmony for which all that is best in us yearns.

Its needs are incessant and great, It yearns for more power and beauty More laughter and love and romance, More loyalty, labor and duty, No chancewhy there's nothing but chance!

One loved to dwell upon it as upon those intense stretches of evening sky when the day yearns through half-shut eyelids in the west.

That gives our hearts the satisfaction towards which it yearns.

Diana yearns to leave The savage coast of these barbarians, Foul with their sacrifice of human blood.

That was so long ago, and yet his eyes Had always afterwards the look that waits And yearns, and waits again, nor can disguise Something it contemplates.

'Hester, through it all, do you not know that my heart yearns for you day and night?that in my prayers I am always remembering you?

My restless spirit ever yearns for change; I only feel the flush and joy of life If I can start fresh quarry every day.

And still my spirit sometimes yearns for you, my blessed Klothilde!

My heart yearns for this mental activity.

The human heart forever yearns to create,this is the pure antique word for it,to give expression and life to an evasive loveliness that haunts the soul in those moments when the body is laid asleep and the spirit walks.

He moves me so, to take of Him what lacks; My want is God's desire to give; He yearns To add Himself to life, and so for aye Make it enough.

I love the Union, and I love and am proud of the brave old flag; I would die for either, and, although I reason with you coldly, my soul yearns to them both, and my heart aches when I think that soon, perhaps, they will no more belong to me.

Unfolding and glowing and shining She yearns toward his cloudy height; She trembles to tears and to perfume With pain of her love's delight.

1375 examples of  yearns  in sentences