Read full poem →This bed and that by tumbling made uneven?
Like one start up your hair tost and displaced,
And with a wanton's tooth your neck new-rased.
Dictionary Entry
To rise suddenly.
In a Sentence
“He started up when he heard the scream.”
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Poetry examples for “start up”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →particular kindness for the person of Oliver; but that it was much
the same with the poets as with the Jews--a hero cannot start up in
any quarter of the world, be his quarrel right or wrong, but both are