adv. and sb. Chiefly poet. [f. YESTER- + MORN sb.] Yesterday morning.
1702. Rowe, Tamerl., II. i. From yester Morn till Even.
a. 1769. Falconer, Shipwr., III. 813. Ah! how unlike what yester-morn enjoy’d!
c. 1815. Jane Austen, Persuasion, xiii. Each lady dated her intelligence [of the accident] from the same hour of yestermorn.
1846. Tennyson, Golden Year, 21. But if you care indeed to listen, hear These measured words, my work of yestermorn.
1867. Emerson, May-Day, 381.
| I marked them yestermorn, | |
| A flock of finches darting | |
| Beneath the crystal arch, | |
| Piping, as they flew, a march. |
1895. Chamb. Jrnl., XII. 828/1. The lover wrote yestermorn, making light of the story.
1896. Kipling, Seven Seas, Song of Banjo, 89
| By the wisdom of the centuries I speak— | |
| To the tune of yestermorn I set the truth— | |
| I, the joy of life unquestioned—I, the Greek— | |
| I, the everlasting Wonder-song of Youth! |
