Dictionary Entry

stirred

Part of SpeechverbPronunciation/stɜːd/Used In Literature ↓

To incite to action

Origin

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Common Phrases

. stirred

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Poetry examples for “stirred”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

And faint the nightwind blew
And stirred on mounds at crossways
The flower of sinner's rue.

But beneath it on the dark
To and fro there stirred a spark.
And again the sombre guide

Why would it sleep not? why should it start,
When never a leaf of the rose-tree stirred?
What made sleep flutter his wings and part?

Hand of harper, tone of bird,
Sound of woods at sundawn stirred,
Welling water's winsome word,

"For the bones of my slain are stirred,
And the seed of my earth in her womb

When I called him a low, sneaking cur.
And the wail of the violins stirred
My brute anger with visions of her.

For a great angel came, ’twas said, and stirred
The pool at certain seasons, and the word

An act in him prepense, in you unthought of.
One step you stirred, and lo! you stood entrapped.

{139a} “There is a god within us, and when he is stirred we grow warm;
that spirit comes from heavenly realms.”

While my heart beats still,
While my breath is stirred
By my fainting will.