Dictionary Entry

erst

Part of SpeechadjectivePronunciation/ɜːst/Used In Literature ↓

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Common Phrases

nach erstim erstdie erstdurch erstdann erstmit ersterst underst sich

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Poetry examples for “erst”

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Which erst was buried in old Rome*s decays.
Now *gins with heat of rising majesty.

Often at length, my wench depart I bid,
She in my lap sits still as erst she did.
I said, "It irks me:" half to weeping framed,

Wherein the absolute Reason, Power, and Love,
That erst could move
Mainly in me but toil and weariness,

Approach, whose coming in the clouds shall be,
As erst was His humility,
A stumbling unto some, the first bid to the Feast.

Ah God! and but for lingering dull dismay,
On all that road our footsteps erst had been
Even thus commingled, and our shadows seen

laurel crown)
erst > of old, formerly

CUD. Piers, I have piped erst so long with pain,
That all mine oaten reeds be rent and wore,

Therewith afraid I ran away;
But he, that erst seem'd but to play,
A shaft in earnest snatched,

Receive this lock which outweighs argosies,—
As purply black, as erst to Pindar's eyes
The dim purpureal tresses gloomed athwart

Mute the impassioned tongue, and tuneful shell,
That erst was wont in noblest strains to swell—
Hush'd the proud shouts that rode Aegaea's wave!