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«Into my heart an air that kills / From yon far country blows: / What are those blue remembered hills, / What spires, what farms are those?»
«You stars that reigned at my nativity, / Whose influence hath allotted death and hell, / Now draw up Faustus, like a foggy mist, / Into the entrails of yon labouring cloud.»
«Him that yon soars on golden wing, / Guiding the fiery-wheel?d throne, / The Cherub Contemplation.»
Author: John Milton (Historian, Poet, Scholar) | Keywords: cherub, fiery, soars, yon
«Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, / With blossomed furze unprofitably gay.»
«Little thinks, in the field, yon red-cloaked clown, Of thee, from the hill-top looking down; And the heifer, that lows in the upland farm, Far-heard, lows not thine ear to charm; The sexton tolling the bell at noon, Dreams not that great Napoleon Sto»
«Hatred and cark and care, what place have they / In yon blue liberality of heaven?»
Author: Robert Browning (Poet) | Keywords: cark, yon
«Predestination in the stride o' yon connectin'-rod.»
«I believe I will dip my pink-and-white body in yon Roman tub. I feel a bit gritty after the affairs of the day.»
«Behold her, single in the field,Yon solitary Highland lass!Reaping and singing by herself;Stop here, or gently pass!»