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«Great hail! we cry to the comersFrom the dazzling unknown shore;Bring us hither your sun and your summers;And renew our world as of yore;You shall teach us your song's new numbers,And things that we dreamed not before:Yea, in spite of a dreamer who slumbers,And a singer who sings no more.»
«But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor.»
Author: Alexander Pope (Poet) | Keywords: Satan, tempts, wiser, yore
«And stay in your houses and do not display your finery like the displaying of the ignorance of yore; and keep up prayer, and pay the poor-rate, and obey Allah and His Apostle. Allah only desires to keep away the uncleanness from you, O people of the»
«There is nothing in England that exercises a more delightful spell over my imagination than the lingerings of the holiday customs and rural games of former times. They recall the pictures my fancy used to draw in the May morning of life, when as yet I only knew the world through books, and believed it to be all that poets had painted it; and they bring with them the flavour of those honest days of yore, in which, perhaps with equal fallacy, I am apt to think the world was more home-bred, social, and joyous than at present.»
«There lived a sage in days of yore,And he a handsome pigtail wore;But wondered much and sorrowed moreBecause it hung behind him.»
«From near thy vicinity, from near thy distance (do I call), remain here, do not follow; do not follow the Fathers of yore! Firmly do I fasten thy life's breath.»
Author: Atharva Veda | Keywords: vicinity, yore
«`Whom the gods love die young' was said of yore.»
Author: Lord Byron | Keywords: yore
«And often, glad no more,We wear a face of joy becauseWe have been glad of yore.»
Author: William Wordsworth (Poet) | Keywords: yore