bespeak

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Afar, where sport the wantons in the lake, Another band of gallant youths betake; The laugh, the shriek, the revel and the toy, Bespeak the innocence of youthful joy.

From The Lusiad or The Discovery of India, an Epic Poem by Camões, Luís de

His imaged birds and painted bowl, And venison, for a journey dressed, Bespeak the nature of the soul, Activity, that wants no rest.

From The Haunted Hour An Anthology by Widdemer, Margaret

His imaged birds, and painted bowl, And venison, for a journey dressed, Bespeak the nature of the soul, Activity, that wants no rest.

From Selections from American poetry, with special reference to Poe, Longfellow, Lowell and Whittier by Carhart, Margaret Spraque

The grass upspurn’d, Thine eye upturn’d, Bespeak its weight to heedless passers by!

From Awd Isaac, The Steeple Chase, and other Poems With a glossary of the Yorkshire Dialect by Castillo, John

Reptiles and Dogs, and all those dreary things, Bespeak the mind from whence such slander springs; Dirt thou may'st throw—the dunce's last retreat, For none but dunces will thy lines repeat.

From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume II (of III) by Freneau, Philip