Read full poem →In vain you boast poetic names of yore,
And cite those Sapphos we admire no more:
Dictionary Entry
A time long past.
In a Sentence
“This word comes from the days of yore.”
Origin
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Common Phrases
. yoreown yoreyore new
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Poetry examples for “yore”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Who in your own despite has strove to please ye.
He scorn'd to borrow from the wits of yore,
But ever writ, as none e'er writ before. 10
Read full poem →No kitchens emulate the vestal fire.
Where are those troops of poor, that throng'd of yore
The good old landlord's hospitable door?
Read full poem →Soothes the sense as to slumber, leaving
Sense of nought that was known of yore.
Read full poem →One whose whole heart of love, being set of yore
On that high joy which music lends us, cast
Read full poem →She lays herself about my life!
The joy I might have had of yore
I have not; for 'tis now no more,
Read full poem →Is passed at length; and garmented in green
Even as in days of yore thou stand'st to-day.
Ah God! and but for lingering dull dismay,
Read full poem →--"A stately Raven of the saintly days of yore.
Not the least obeisance made he; not a minute stopped or stayed he."
Read full poem →To take things seriously, or all in jest;
Whether, with grim Heraclitus of yore,
To weep, as he did, till his eyes were sore,
Read full poem →Open here I flung the shutter, when, with many a flirt and flutter,
In there stepped a stately Raven of the saintly days of yore;
Not the least obeisance made he: not an instant stopped or stayed he;