Read full poem →And reason in the chase: but wherefore now
Do these your lords stir up the heat of war,
Some calling Arthur born of Gorlois,
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To arouse or excite (passion or action).
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Poetry examples for “stir up”
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Read full poem →And with stern countenance back again doth chace
Their looser lookes that stir up lustes impure.
With such strange termes* her eyes she doth inure,
Read full poem →instead which will at least warm our hands
and stir up the talk.
I think we have kept fair time.