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Is he who so fair in your eyes to his manhood upgrew, Alone in his doom of pale death — are of mortals the beaten so few?

From The Little Book of Modern Verse; a selection from the work of contemporaneous American poets by Rittenhouse, Jessie Belle

There upgrew before him the tree to which he was bound.

From Foes by Johnston, Mary

Along its rails upgrew the greatest orchard industry in the United States.

From The Story of the Rome, Watertown, and Ogdensburg RailRoad by Hungerford, Edward

Miles slid, and the sight of the port upgrew    As they sped on; When slipping its bond the bracelet flew From her fondled arm.

From Poems of the Past and the Present by Hardy, Thomas