Citations: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