yesterday (n.)
- erst
- history
- past
- then
- yesteryear
- yore
yesterday (adv.)
- before
- earlier
- erst
- formerly
- heretofore
- historically
- hitherto
- past
- previously
- recently
- then
Yesterday, and to-day, and forever.
Great families of yesterday we show,
And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.
Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man,—yesterday in embryo, to-morrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hair's-breadth of time assigned to thee live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
O, call back yesterday, bid time return!
Not poppy, nor mandragora,
Nor all the drowsy syrups of the world,
Shall ever medicine thee to that sweet sleep
Which thou owedst yesterday.
But yesterday the word of Caesar might
Have stood against the world; now lies he there,
And none so poor to do him reverence.
A thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, and as a watch in the night.
