Dictionary Entry

speak to

To give evidence regarding something; to attest or provide evidence for; to bespeak.

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Poetry examples for “speak to”

Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.

Life come to me, and warmth, and here I be!
Can’t ’e speak to me? Be ye gone so far
As ’e can’t ’ear me? Not the word I’d say

And I spell nothing in their stir,
But now perhaps they speak to her,
And plain for her to understand

_Adam._ My child, God does not speak to human minds
In that unmeaning arbitrary way.

Step. Nay, not so, neither; you shall pardon me :
but I speak to serve my turn,

of Richard IH. (1594) I'll
speak to him and gently him
salute. Though in my heart I

A gull is he who fears a velvet gown,
And, when a wench is brave, dares not speak to her;
A gull is he which traverseth the town,

The one beloved woman. Best
Speak to the senses' interest,
Which brooks no mystery nor delay:

Whom he would sometimes talk about
And speak to, when his nights were bad,
And so I told her that I had.

led them far from home to die for an ideal. And
yet they live and speak to us here in the Home-
land, not of trivial things but of immortal things.

And always keep from laughing, if I can;
But speak to him, he'll make you such grimace,
Lord! to be grave exceeds the power of face.