burst forth

burst forth (third-person singular simple present bursts forth, present participle bursting forth, simple past and past participle burst forth)

1. To erupt
   • 1864, Stéphane Mallarmé

     I am inventing a language which must necessarily burst forth from a very new poetics, that could be defined in a couple of words: Paint, not the thing, but the effect it produces.

   • 1847, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Kavanagh:

     If Spring came but once in a century, instead of once a year, or burst forth with the sound of an earthquake, and not in silence, what wonder and expectation there would be in all hearts to behold the miraculous change!