upspring

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Coal-black bird flies down to Nastrand, but on light, unfolded wings, Like the tone of harps, the other, sounding towards the sun, upsprings.

From The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Lo, startled at the heavenly ray, With speed unwonted Indolence upsprings, And, heaving, lifts her leaden wings, And sullen glides away.

From The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems by Beattie, James

A boundless kindness in my heart upsprings, I love the straw, I love the creeping things; They also in my joy shall have a share.

From Love's Comedy by Herford, C. H. (Charles Harold)

He is placed, from the very first, on "the table land whence life upsprings aspiring to be immortality."

From Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Jones, Henry, Sir

To breathe from toil upsprings the panting crane, Then with fresh vigour downwards darts again.

From The Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair, and Falconer With Lives, Critical Dissertations, and Explanatory Notes by Gilfillan, George