Citations:erst

English citations of erst

(English adverb)

• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Czar Alexander the Second, lines 11-13

  While he, — laid foully low

  With limbs red-rent, with festering brain which erst

  Willed kingly freedom

• Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Hope overtaken, lines 4-6

  Ah God! and but for lingering dull dismay,

  On all that road our footsteps erst had been

  Even thus commingled