Read full poem →A little street half garden and half house ;
But scarce could hear each other speak for noise
Of clocks and chimes, like silver hammers falling
Dictionary Entry
To speak on somebody's behalf.
In a Sentence
“I think I speak for the whole group when I say that we're glad you came.”
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Poetry examples for “speak for”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →My little book seems scarcely to admit of prefatory words: either it
will speak for itself, or all my additions must fail to speak for it.
Read full poem →And you sit across the table and serve me
And neither of us can speak for happiness
Without our voices breaking, or lips trembling."
Read full poem →Clear to me now standards not yet publish’d, clear to me that my soul,
That the soul of the man I speak for rejoices in comrades,
Here by myself away from the clank of the world,
Read full poem →anyone else. The author has left us his own fragmentary but impressive
Foreword; this, and his Poems, can speak for him, backed by the
authority of his experience as an infantry soldier, and sustained by