Longing | Word Longing at Open Dictionary of English by LearnThat Foundation

If "longing" is indeed one of the catch phrases of nostalgia, I wonder if ETA Hoff. and Goethe might fit your bill, too.
But, though progressives know that, the longing is acute and the temptation to rebind themselves to such impulses strong.
Yearn'd with vain longing — still thy patient eye,
My longing is so violent naught like it ere was seen;

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