upspring

Thou darest not say I love, and yet thou lovest, And think'st to crush the mighty yearning down, That in thy spirit shall upspring forever!

From Graham's Magazine Vol XXXIII No. 3 September 1848 by Various

To feel the new life flutter mystic wing; Like to a lark to feel one's soul upspring, Transpierce the very limit of the sky, And toss its challenge to Eternity!

From The Optimist's Good Morning by Florence Hobart Perin

See how Time, consoling, Dries the saddest tears, Bids the darkest storm-clouds Pass in gentle rain; While upspring in glory, Flowers and dreams again!

From Legends and Lyrics Part 1 by Charles Dickens

With an abrupt upspring, his throat half harsh with anger, he placed both forepaws on the table and barked at the waiter.

From Michael, Brother of Jerry by Jack London

Behold I touch his heart, and there upspring Blooms to his cheeks, and flashes to his eyes; His scornful lips upon the instant sing, And all his pulses leap with ecstasies.

From The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems by Frances Fuller Victor

When the battle-cry rang, Hey! how the gray youth to the saddle upsprang!

From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 2 by Hamilton Wright Mabie

Blood succoured the earth and upsprang a plant!

From Witch-Doctors by Charles Beadle

These are the worlds from which the Cross upsprang, and from their incorporeal limbs the Man has come forth.

From The Gnôsis of the Light by F. Lamplugh

Amazed, upsprang Achilles, clash'd aloud125 His palms together, and thus, sad, exclaim'd.

From The Iliad of Homer Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper by William Cowper

She upsprang, she rose upright, in his selle she sate in sight, By her love she overcame.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Volume II by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Paul felt a sudden chill—the upspringing fountain of his gladness was checked in mid-leap.

From Lucy Maud Montgomery Short Stories, 1909 to 1922 by L. M. (Lucy Maud) Montgomery

Press on! strong plumed! on tireless wing upspringing, Thy course be ever toward the empyrean; And at thy side my bonded spirit winging, Will mount with thee till thy high goal be won!

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, February 1844 Volume 23, Number 2 by Various

Stories like these would take us trailing across the country from Maine to California and would leave us bewildered before the upspringing of new life everywhere in the energies of the young women of America.

From The American Country Girl by Martha Foote Crow

It was conspicuous for its absence of upspringing delicacy, light, arch merriment.

From Melomaniacs by James Huneker

You tell me that that good ship’s timber never done nothing against winds and weathers since her upspringing, and I’ll confess ye that young Frankie never done nothing neither.

From Rewards and Fairies by Rudyard Kipling

Above the beäten mwold upsprung The driven doust, a-spreadën light, An' on the new-leav'd thorn, a-hung, Wer wool a-quiv'rèn white; An' corn, a sheenèn bright, did bow, On slopèn Meldon's zunny brow.

From Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect by William Barnes

Fond helianthus turned her fervent face, Meek antirrhinum paled and grew apace; Late dandelions, robed in cloth of gold, With golden-rod, upsprung from out the mould, And pensive, gold-eyed daisies pranked the wold.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 12, No. 29, August, 1873 by Various

Yet higher than their tops The verdurous wall of Paradise upsprung; Which to our general sire gave prospect large Into his nether empire neighbouring round.

From Paradise Lost by John Milton

Then from the agitated deep upsprung The legion of Apsarasas, so named That to the watery element they owed Their being.

From Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems by Henry Hart Milman

Wistfulness upsprung as I reviewed my empty life, but rude reality suddenly uprose and obliterated ideality.

From Some Everyday Folk and Dawn by Miles Franklin