desire (n.)
- address
- admiration
- adoration
- affection
- agape
- aim
- ambition
- animus
- aphrodisia
- appeal
- appetence
- appetency
- appetite
- application
- ardor
- ask
- asking
- aspiration
- assumption
- assurance
- attachment
- avarice
- catch
- charity
- choice
- command
- concupiscence
- confidence
- conviction
- counsel
- craving
- cupidity
- decision
- decree
- demand
- dependence
- desideratum
- design
- determination
- devotion
- discretion
- disposition
- effect
- entreaty
- eromania
- eros
- eroticism
- erotism
- expectation
- faith
- fancy
- favor
- fervor
- flame
- fondness
- function
- grab
- greed
- hanker
- hankering
- heart
- hope
- hopefulness
- hopes
- horniness
- hunger
- idea
- idolatry
- idolization
- inclination
- indecency
- indent
- intent
- intention
- itch
- lasciviousness
- lecherousness
- lechery
- libido
- like
- liking
- lodestone
- long
- longing
- love
- lovemaking
- lust
- lustfulness
- magnet
- mean
- meaning
- mind
- motive
- nisus
- nymphomania
- objective
- order
- pant
- passion
- petition
- pine
- pining
- plan
- pleasure
- plum
- point
- popularity
- presumption
- prize
- project
- promise
- proposal
- prospect
- prospectus
- prurience
- pruriency
- purport
- purpose
- rapacity
- regard
- reliance
- request
- requirement
- requisition
- resolution
- resolve
- rut
- sake
- salaciousness
- satyriasis
- security
- sentiment
- sex
- shine
- snatch
- striving
- study
- temptation
- think
- thirst
- trophy
- truelove
- trust
- urge
- uxoriousness
- velleity
- view
- volition
- want
- weakness
- will
- wish
- worship
- yearning
- yen
desire (v.)
- address
- aim
- ambition
- appeal
- ask
- aspire
- bespeak
- catch
- choose
- command
- confide
- counsel
- covet
- crave
- decide
- decree
- demand
- design
- destine
- determine
- effect
- enjoy
- expect
- fancy
- favor
- flame
- function
- grab
- hanker
- heart
- hope
- hunger
- importune
- indent
- intend
- itch
- like
- long
- love
- lust
- mean
- mind
- order
- pant
- petition
- pine
- plan
- point
- prefer
- presume
- prize
- project
- promise
- propose
- prospect
- purport
- purpose
- regard
- request
- require
- requisition
- resolve
- rut
- sake
- sex
- shine
- snatch
- solicit
- study
- summon
- think
- thirst
- trophy
- trust
- urge
- view
- want
- will
- wish
- worship
- yearn
- yen
O'er her warm cheek and rising bosom move
The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love.
Every man has business and desire,
Such as it is.
True love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven:
It is not fantasy's hot fire,
Whose wishes soon as granted fly;
It liveth not in fierce desire,
With dead desire it doth not die;
It is the secret sympathy,
The silver link, the silken tie,
Which heart to heart and mind to mind
In body and in soul can bind.
Hope! thou nurse of young desire.
[Desire] is a perpetual rack, or horsemill, according to Austin, still going round as in a ring.
Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.
She was a form of life and light
That seen, became a part of sight,
And rose, where'er I turn'd mine eye,
The morning-star of memory!
Yes, love indeed is light from heaven;
A spark of that immortal fire
With angels shared, by Alla given,
To lift from earth our low desire.
Hereafter, in a better world than this,
I shall desire more love and knowledge of you.
Some might consider him as too fond of fame; for the desire of glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.
The desire of power in excess caused the angels to fall; the desire of knowledge in excess caused man to fall.
The gratitude of most men is but a secret desire of receiving greater benefits.
The desire of the moth for the star,
Of the night for the morrow,
The devotion to something afar
From the sphere of our sorrow.
The grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail; because man goeth to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets.
Prayer is the soul's sincere desire,
Uttered or unexpressed,—
The motion of a hidden fire
That trembles in the breast.
It must be so,—Plato, thou reasonest well!
Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire,
This longing after immortality?
Or whence this secret dread and inward horror
Of falling into naught? Why shrinks the soul
Back on herself, and startles at destruction?
'T is the divinity that stirs within us;
'T is Heaven itself that points out an hereafter,
And intimates eternity to man.
Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!
Heav'n but the Vision of fulfill'd Desire,
And Hell the Shadow of a Soul on fire.
