I am a creature of grief and dust and bitter longings.

Now 58, Mr. Darwish has written poems that range from dreamy reflections on love to bitter longing for the Palestine that was lost when Israel was created in 1948.

He finally forced himself away from his private, bitter longing and looked up into her eyes.

She lifted his face that she might look at him and saw the tears of bitter longing pouring down.

Still, when the breeze stirred the trees, the smell made him think of Gilead with bitter longing, and for the first time he considered the possibility that he might never see home again-that he had become as much a wanderer as old Peddler Moon in the sky.

Simeon looked them over and stifled a wave of bitter longing.

But better death than the ceaseless and everlasting urge, the fire that has burned my veins with bitter longing.

"Like children playing truant from school," Reggie replied, with bitter longing.