Read full poem →The cuckoo shouts all day at nothing
In leafy dells alone;
And traveler's joy beguiles in autumn
Dictionary Entry
A valley, especially in the form of a natural hollow, small and deep.
Origin
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Common Phrases
. dellsarea dellsparkway dellsdells wisconsindells deepdells woodeddells shadydells little
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Poetry examples for “dells”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →I met her in the greenest dells
Where dewdrops pearl the wood blue bells
Read full poem →And she forgot the blue above the trees,
And she forgot the dells where waters run,
And she forgot the chilly autumn breeze; 420
Read full poem →No woven web of bloody heraldries,
But mossy dells for roving comrades made,
Warm valleys where the tired student lies
Read full poem →sang so sweet the nightingale on the cliffs,... nor so much, by the grey
sea-waves, did ever the sea-bird sing, nor so much in the dells of dawn
did the bird of Memnon bewail the son of the Morning, fluttering around
Read full poem →Month after month the gathered rains descend
Drenching yon secret Aethiopian dells,
And from the desert's ice-girt pinnacles
Read full poem →Whose waves they have tainted with death.
It is fed from the depth of a thousand dells,
Around them it foams and rages and swells; _30
Read full poem →In the thought that she is nought,
Even as I, beyond the dells
Where she dwells.