Read full poem →Who shall declare the joy of the running!
Who shall tell of the pleasures of flight!
Springing and spurning the tufts of wild heather,
Dictionary Entry
To inform (someone) about (something).
In a Sentence
“He tells of his adventures abroad.”
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Poetry examples for “tell of”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Lichen and moss and sturdy weed,
Tell of His love who sends the dew,
The rain and sunshine too,
Read full poem →With words to my profession I reply; 10
I tell of fourching, vouchers, and counterpleas,
Of withernams, essoins, and champarty.
Read full poem →Either in the ashes that were left, or anywhere,
A sign to tell of who or what had been with Stafford there.
Read full poem →of course, just as it ate roast beef. English literature is
permeated with drinking. The old English tales tell of
the brews, the drinking parties, the merry times.
Read full poem →The smiles that win, the tints that glow,
But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
Read full poem →And tell of all I felt, and all I saw;
Read full poem →Around my fire an evening group to draw,
And tell of all I felt and all I saw;
And, as a hare, whom hounds and horns pursue,
Read full poem →I pray that ye will hear me when I cry,
And tell of mine own heart this novelty;
How the lamenting Spirit moans in it, _10
Read full poem →With some pain is fraught;
Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.