Read full poem →Can look to heaven and think it white again—
Look up to heaven and find a something there
To make what is not be, altho’ it is.
Dictionary Entry
To have better prospects.
In a Sentence
“Things started looking up after Jim moved back in with his parents.”
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Poetry examples for “look up”
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Read full poem →Lilly sat up in front, right by Mr. Stanhope’s desk. We saw her open her
biology textbook and look up the answer to the first question. That was it.
We all opened up our textbooks. Stanhope just sat there and watched us.
Read full poem →Your eyes look earthward, mine look up.
I see the far-off city grand,
Read full poem →cognomen, Heliogabalus. I dare say you would like to take a peep
at the divinity of the temple. You need not look up at the
heavens; his Sunship is not there—at least not the Sunship adored
Read full poem →And I look up and over
The reader's shoulder and see the name of the writer.
Read full poem →And the sky is so full of stars it seems
Like a field of buckwheat. And the lovers look up,
Then stand entranced under the silence of stars,
Read full poem →Next day I look up Jim and rhapsodize
About a cottage with roses and a garden,
Read full poem →And then, at moments, suddenly,
We look up to the great wide sky,
Inquiring wherefore we were born…
Read full poem →In folds of golden fulness at my door?
Look up and see the casement broken in,
The bats and owlets builders in the roof!
Read full poem →They look up with their pale and sunken faces,
And their look is dread to see,