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Startling the wood bird's madrigal - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "The Brook"

A brave and startling truth - Maya Angelou "A Brave and Startling Truth"

Startling revelations lost in the moment - Bruce Boston "Surreal People"

At the trumpet's startling sound - G.R.C. "The Wreck (For the Mirror)"

My startled soul to charm - John Clare "Song"

Startled forests, helpless to retreat - Arthur Colton "West-Easterly Moralities"

The startled birds of night came out - Palmer Cox "The Brownies in the Orchard"

The startled air resounds with clanging bells - George Francis Dawson "Myra's Well"

Laughing back the startled shadows - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

A startled monk's apocalyptic vision - Timothy Donnelly "Hymn to Life"

Startle my garden pink and gold - Rebecca Dunham "Elegy for the Eleven: 4. The Mud Room"

Startled into vivid wonder - Max Eastman "X Rays"

So their light startles your eyes - Martin Espada "The Sinking of the San Jacinto"

Like thunder on my startled ear - Claude Halcro "Niagara"

Bright flesh startling my fasting tongue - Penny Harter "Just Grapefruit"

Can startle the voices of the peaks - Annie Fellows Johnston "Echoes from Erin"

Startles the wild bee from the fox-glove - John Keats "Sonnet VII [O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell]"

Strange music startle the still air - Fanny Kemble "An Invitation"

The ghost of you startling and tattered - R.B. Lemberg "The Broken Hill and the Breath"

With sudden and with startling vividness - Giacomo Leopardi "Aspasia" transl. by Frederick Townsend

Breathes like a startled spirit - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "In an Autumn Garden"

Wrung them from startled velvet midnights - Naomi Long Madgett "If There Were Songs to Sing"

The deer who startle at our footsteps - Sarah McCartt-Jackson "Borrow"

Harsh cries of startled beasts - Pablo Neruda "Mexican Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid

A starling startling northwards - Christina Olivares "Portrait"

As still as a startled quail - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett

Still as any startled tortoise - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"

Where startled Echo rarely calls - Carroll Ryan "Malta"

Startled the haughty stars - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"

Startles the heart of the deer - "Song of Summer" transl. by Kuno Meyer

With tyrant dreams that startle - George Sterling "Resurrection"

Flashed up the startled skies - Muriel Stuart "Forgotten Dead, I Salute You"

In the startled gaze of the universe - Rabindranath Tagore "Urvasi"

Soars lightly like a startled swan - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson

Startled by the light - Louis Untermeyer "Haunted"

Through startled lapwings now we run - Mary Webb "Market Day"

Thither my startled soul she brings - Edith Wharton "Dieu d'Amour [a Castle in Cyprus]"

Startling on her desert throne - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Face a startled world - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "War: Neutral"

The startling symmetry of his reflection - Keith S. Wilson "Book of Horses"

Dawns that scatter like startled birds - Humbert Wolfe "The Jungle"

Startling as the Colossus of Rhodes - Adolf Wolff "The Sculptor's Rhapsody"

A pair of wild parrots startle up - Stephen Yenser "Vertumnal [excerpt]"


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