Read full poem →Earth, strike up your music,
Birds that sing and bells that ring;
Dictionary Entry
To start something with somebody else, such as a conversation or relationship.
In a Sentence
“He struck up a friendship with Redford that was to last for many years.”
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Poetry examples for “strike up”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →God set between His After and Before,
And strike up and strike off the general roar
Of the rushing worlds a melody that floats
Read full poem →Many's the friend there, will listen and pray
"God's luck to gallants that strike up the lay--
CHORUS.--_Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!"_
Read full poem →Many's the friend there, will listen and pray
"God's luck to gallants that strike up the lay--
Read full poem →Many's the friend there, will listen and pray
"God's luck to gallants that strike up the lay--
Read full poem →dew;
(With additional songs—every spring will I now strike up additional songs,
Nor ever again forget, these tender days, the chants of Death as well as Life;)