Potential Titles: Tell/Told
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somethingdarkerTell me something about the dandelion - Hanif Abdurraqib "How Can Black People Write About Flowers at a Time Like This"
Telling the light to stay outside - Etel Adnan "Night"
To tell the dirt it belongs to you - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"
The stories we hadn't planned to tell - Atticus "Magic in Adventure"
The pale-faced marble tells the softened tale - Astley H. Baldwin "The Well-Known Spot" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.733, 12 Jan. 1878]
Tell them about my debts to your mind - Ari Banias "Tribute"
I will tell you how to ask for bread - "Beg, Doggie, Beg" [Baby Chatterbox, 1880. On Project Gutenberg]
Damned souls had never much to tell - Stephen Vincent Benet "Prohibition"
Breezes will not tell us where - Sarah Jeannette Lathbury Brigham "Little Neighbors"
Wake without an alarm telling them - Jericho Brown "'N'em"
As if telling their sorrows - Sue Budin "'Passport, 1954'"
With speed and joy past telling - Wilhelm Busch "Plish and Plum" transl. by Charles Timothy Brooks
Sky knows more than Earth will tell - Anthony Butts "Song of Earth and Sky"
And the reckless wind is telling now - E.W.C. "November" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]
The whip-poor-will telling that night is at hand - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"
Longer than Memory's tongue can tell - R.M.C. "Lay of the Madman" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
Tell me fifty thousand things - C.S. Calverley "Lines on Hearing the Organ"
If one arise to tell this truth - Tommaso Campanella "XXV. The People" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Till the rocket tells the star - W. Wilfred Campbell "Victoria"
One mighty blaze shall tell - Roger Casement "The Triumph of Hugh O'Neill"
Five teeth tell the sunburst story - Adrian Castro "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"
Could tell the meaning of that hidden charm - Mrs. M. T. W. Chandler "Thoughts from Bulwer" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]
And tell him the history of his skin - Tina Chang "Fury"
the saddest lies are the ones we tell ourselves - Lucille Clifton "1994"
No tongue shall dare to tell - Arthur Hugh Clough "Peschiera"
Every nerve and sinew tell on ages - Arthur Cleveland Coxe "Onward"
Telling time by rain and candles - Leonard Cohen "For E.J.P."
Tell me quiet things - Hilda Conkling "Tell Me"
To tell where a rose has been - Susan Coolidge "Embalmed"
No more tongue to tell of the poppy - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Since my unequal pen essayed to tell - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Tell wider prophecies to me - Isabella Valancy Crawford "The Axe of the Pioneer"
Tells a story the Woolworth Building may repeat - Waring Cuney "Dust" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Tell the machines we honor their dead - Kyle Dargan "The Robots are Coming"
No one had to tell the devil - Tyree Daye "Don't Say Love Just Signal"
Shown the truth I shrank from telling - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Ever blessed be the day]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Torment more than I can tell - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Now in good sooth my joy is vanished clean]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
And what will we tell anyone who asks - Asa Delaney "The Schmidt Pain Index: A Love Story"
Who tells his need to Sunday bells - E.C. Dickinson "A Child's Voice"
Tell me the story of surrender - Chelsea Dingman "In the Third Trimester, They Can't Find a Heartbeat"
Tell how they labored to deceive - Anthony Euwer "The Long Bet"
The turf alone tells whence he sprung - D.F. "Monument and Turf" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.725, 17 Nov. 1877]
All the words the signpost tells - "Fairy's Album: V. Fairy's Dream"
But what can you tell me of sorrow - Tarfia Faizullah "Your Own Palm"
Blessed she who may tell her agony - Jessie Fauset "Noblesse Oblige" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
May not tell the change of time - R.O. Fenwick "The Goblin Groom"
The other dolls sit as I tell them they must - Hannah G. Fernald "A Troublesome Daughter" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Luck is not my weather to tell - Jameson Fitzpatrick "Divorce Song"
Tell me no tale how Romans built - James Elroy Flecker "Hyali"
A new joy everytime [sic] in the telling - James W. Foley "Some One Like You"
Tell of hearts you've sadly broken - Mary Weston Fordham "Passing of the Old Year"
Tell of love dead and unspoken - Mary Weston Fordham "Passing of the Old Year"
Who see so little they tell no tales - Robert Frost "Pan with Us"
Nor let the dead leaves to us tell - Linda Gardiner "Long Ago" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.52--v.I, 27 Dec. 1884]
Tell a tale of changeless sorrow - Linda Gardiner "Long Ago" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.52--v.I, 27 Dec. 1884]
The monoliths tell me everything - Gwynne Garfinkle "Scenes from a Marriage"
Tell my bones that they are each a lamb remembered - Emerald ᏃᏈᏏ GoingSnake "Someday I'll Love--"
Let the whiskey tell the tale - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Mortui Vivos Docent"
I tell with equal truth and grief - W.H.H. "The Thief" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.14, no.403, 5 Dec. 1829]
Tell deep secrets to the Flower - Hafiz "The Divan XL" (translated by H. Bicknell)
Backstreet truth teller - Joy Harjo "Break My Heart"
Same old Hard Luck tales to tell - Oliver Herford "The Smoker's Year Book: November"
Cannot tell presence from memory - Sir Geoffrey Hill "Genius Loci"
Do tell why love must die - Jennie Earngey Hill "Song of the Brook"
Who can tell you not to mourn the dust? - Brenda Hillman "Porcelain Musician in a Child's Bedroom"
From lonely hearths too gray to tell - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
Found no words to tell the thoughts - Lucy H. Hooper "Farewell" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]
With dandelions to tell the hours - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad V"
The clock strikes the hour and tells the time to none - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad LXI: Hughley Steeple"
Her cold volcanoes tell - Jean Ingelow "Honors. -- Part I."
I have risked the chrysalis of my brother by telling you this - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"
Tell me you will share my stories - Jacqueline Jiang "If My Body Is Dying, Tell Me You Love Me"
Tell me the ones inside me are safe - Jacqueline Jiang "If My Body Is Dying, Tell Me You Love Me"
Don't tell me about the contracts you've made - Jacqueline Jiang "If My Body Is Dying, Tell Me You Love Me"
Tells a rosary of death - Lionel Johnson "Parnell"
A saxophone that tells on me - Taylor Johnson "Art Movie"
Tells no one except the sycamore - Judy Jordan "Prologue"
To tell the future what to be - Fady Joudah "[...]"
Hear the messages that Dreamers tell - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: VIII" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]
Tell you what I know - Ilya Kaminsky "Firing Squad"
Went telling of expatriate tears - T.M. Kettle "When Others See Us as We See Ourselves!"
Telling me which foot to put down first - Yusef Komunyakaa "Thanks"
Telling of joys that come no more - Frances Lamartine "Thistle-Down" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Gathering crops whose worth no man might tell - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]
And tells to none the lore again - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Inlet and Shore"
Leaving nothing to tell me who they are - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
Could tell the truth of the future - M.L. Liebler "Trembling in the Temple of Tears at the Feet of Buddha"
A sundial telling no time - Kyle Carrero Lopez "Modern Fiction"
Tell me of your wrath-built Babel - William Lumley "Shadows" [Fantasy Fan v.1 no.9, May 1934]
an ancestor telling you to rise up - Sheila Maldonado "window on my part-time employer in the one building that was once two"
No song can tell it all - Edwin Markham "Joy of the Morning"
Clothes have a way of telling stories - Jeannette Marks "Obscurity"
Tell your golden tale - Jeannette Marks "Ravello"
The frogs would tell you if they could - Don Marquis "In the Bayou"
Tell my sorrows to the winds of dawn - Baba Rahim Mashrab "Love Ghazal of Mashrab (4)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Won't tell you that he worships Freedom - "The Masquerade of Freedom" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]
To the oars the sea will tell - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "The Kiss Refused" transl. by John Pollen
Tell the truth and sow the seeds of songs - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"
To tell time in the cold - Marc McKee "Hello, New Year"
Tell you your eyes are mirrors - Rachel Michaud "Crossing Over"
Tell you your eyes are windows - Rachel Michaud "Crossing Over"
The storm-seers failed to tell us - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"
Tell me why you grieve so wild - S. Isadore Miner "Old Scores Repaid, or Tragedy Reversed" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
Telling journalists they are looking into it - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"
A family that did not tell the story - Brad Aaron Modlin "One Candle Now, Then Seven More"
I could tell of the splintered sun - N. Scott Momaday "Prayer for Words"
And can not tell what waits us at the brink - Harriet Monroe "A Hymn"
Tell me what color I should wear to a funeral - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
And tell me our love is remembered - Thomas Moore (1779-1852) "At the Mid Hour of Night"
Return to tell Egypt the story - Thomas Moore "Sound the Loud Timbrel"
To tell foeman from brother - William Morris "The Pilgrims of Hope II: The Bridge and the Street"
Can't tell Gethsemane from the Garden of Eden - Paul Muldoon "A Rooster in Tepoztlan"
But who cried out nobody would tell - "Naughty Willie" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]
Wanting the oracle to tell me first - Hoa Nguyen "Revenge Poem"
Unto the ever hopeful future tell - Meredith Nicholson "Ruin"
Tell it to the wondering flowers - Meredith Nicholson "A Secret"
Do not hasten but pause to tell - Meredith Nicholson "Whereaway"
Tell the woods of their danger - O'Gnive, bard of Shane O'Neill, c.1560 "The Downfall of the Gael" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson
Not telling a lie for anyone - Sharon Olds "Suddenly"
A heartbeat telling stories in the dark - Matthew Olzmann "Astronomers Locate a New Planet"
To tell their anger at this clash of swords - Herbert E. Palmer "Nature in War-Time"
Whoever does the telling - Soham Patel "Mixed with always"
Whoever does the telling stops time - Soham Patel "Mixed with always:"
Not a stone tell where I lie - Alexander Pope "Ode on Solitude"
Telling the heart of their truth - Ezra Pound "Dum Capitolium Scandet"
Tells a golden story of the transfigured west - Horatio Nelson Powers "Delectatio Piscatoria" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Sept. 1880]
Like a psalm of green days telling - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Upon Eckington Bridge, River Avon"
Tell our stories of solitude spent in multitude - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"
Let them tell the history of thy crimes - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
The things he thought but did not tell - Sir Ronald Ross "The Parson and the Angel"
But who shall tell the dream? - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"
what this city of smoke & blood has to tell - Abu Bakr Sadiq "POST MASSACRE PSYCHE EVALUATION"
I'm scared of telling the truth - Abu Bakr Sadiq "POST MASSACRE PSYCHE EVALUATION"
May tell us how our flax and wheat arise - Friedrich Schiller "The Simple Peasant"
Telling myself something sweet and something sacred - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #98"
A song's sweet strains to tell - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior" (transl. from the Anishinaabemowin either by the poet or by her husband)
Tell our tales of plasma waves - Ann K. Schwader "Void Music"
Tell the tale of tears - Clinton Scollard "The Little Creek Coonana"
But we have secrets I won't tell - "Secrets" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
The stories we do not dare to tell - Robert W. Service "The Ghosts"
The waves have a story to tell - Robert W. Service "The Three Voices"
Telling you my particular troubles - Diane Seuss "Poetry"
Fortune to brief minutes tell - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XIV"
And tell the ashes life is good - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Change"
What tongue may tell the terror - B. Simmons "Mahmood the Ghazavide" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLIX, v.LVIII, Sept. 1845]
Telling me to go toward myself - Danez Smith "it won't be a bullet"
Tell the past the truth about itself - Maggie Smith "Joke"
Not a lie if the teller believes it - Maggie Smith "Parachute"
Shall I tell philosophy's fortune? - Marin Sorescu "Seneca" transl. by Michael Hamburger
Tell Zeal it wants devotion - Anonymous "The Soul's Errand"
Who knows a thing and will not tell - James Stephens "The College of Science"
Only the brook can tell - George Sterling "After the Storm"
Never tell of sorrowed things - George Sterling "The Peace of the Hills"
The twilight tells not which - George Sterling "Remorse"
The sands telling golden hours - Muriel Stuart "Boys Bathing"
The ruin in telling the truth - Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan "Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet"
Dare not tell your heart what it has suffered - Carmen Sylva "Rest"
That could not tell their too full joy - K.T. "Donald--A Pony" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.9-v.I, 1 March 1884]
Tell my sorrows to the Moon - Abdikheyir Khelil Tawakkul "Sharing My Sorrow" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
To hear bold seraphs tell - Thomas Tickell "To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Addison"
To walk in the telling of things - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"
Depending on what I can never tell - Emma Trelles "Corazón in Fall"
Tell me the secret of what comes next - Leah Umansky "I Want to be Stark[like]" [Poetry Jan. 2014]
Tell a rondelay in words of yesterday - Rudolph Valentino "Introduction"
Who can you trust to tell the story - Wang An-Shih "Reading History" transl. by David Hinton
We care not what old Homer tells - J. Wareham "The Trojan War, 1915" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
Telling wonders from the sky - Isaac Watts "A Cradle Hymn"
No need to tell our errand - Arthur Weir "Pere Brosse"
For their worth can no man tell - "What the Clock Says" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Tell them that light is never a metaphor - Charles Wright "Shadow and Smoke"
Tell them the shadows are already gone - Charles Wright "Shadow and Smoke"
Tell the waves stay back - Dr. Seema Yasmin "My Sister Teaches Me How to Ululate"
No use telling the dead - Kevin Young "Ledge"
Inside me a need to tell the truth - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "Amto remembers Hussein, Aljibbayn 1983"
In the bedtime story she tells herself - Timothy Yu "Chinese Dream 61"
Our knees tell truths - Javier Zamora "On a Dirt Road outside Oaxaca"
That never aches when I tell the truth - Matthew Zapruder "Haiku"
Will realize that I foretell their doom - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"
By prophets long foretold - P.P. Pratt "The Millennium"
Conscious of the thing foretold - George Sterling "The Wiser Prophet"
As a spark foretells a flame - Sara Teasdale "From the Sea"
Throwing stars and fortune tellers - R.A. Villanueva "This dark is the same dark as when you close"
The tale of Yesterday retold - John B. Tabb "Dawn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Nov. 1889]
Told and retold by millions of bodies - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"
Told and retold to a highest bidder - Rachel Zucker "What Dark Thing"
Told us this war would never end - Duane Ackerson "The War on Terror"
Ever laugh at the fortunes told - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"
With ready tongue her story told - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
What is lost that never may be told? - William Allingham "Aeolian Harp"
Half-truths told and entire lies - Maya Angelou "In a Time"
Once without a word was told - G. Clifton Bingham "Sweet Day of Days" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.156, v.III, 25 Dec. 1886]
All the lies I should have told - Geoffrey Brock "Orpheus Variations. 2 In Which He Turns Inward"
Of higher hopes and prouder promise told - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Stories too painful to be told twice - Votey Cheav "When a Kingdom Falls/Shakti's Kisses"
Told in shadows on the grass - Benjamin Copeland "The Larger Life"
The whisper of gold, the story half told - Frank J. Cotter "The Land"
Know the secret that you told me long ago - G.A. Davis "The Sea's Secret" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Aug. 1880]
Tales told in dim Eden - Walter de la Mare "All That's Past"
They told me Pan was dead - Walter de la Mare "They Told Me"
Told their secrets to the trees - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
Told you right off this was a dream - Denise Duhamel "Sex with a Famous Poet"
She has never told me anything but the truth - Tarfia Faizullah "Wait Until It Grows Roots"
The sundial told in silence - Eleanor Farjeon "Dwellers in the Garden"
These secrets told are ruin - John Gay "Fable LIV: Ant in Office" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
And told him of the joys that wisdom brings - Gladys May Casely Hayford "Nativity" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The facts were told not to speak - Jane Hirshfield "On the Fifth Day"
Be told by tears - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
Told by the mocking voice of fate - Rosa Vertner Jeffrey "Daisy Dare"
A shawl of sparks over a story I have never told - Emily Jiang & R.B. Lemberg "Salamander Song"
Told old stories to the night - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"
Told by the sound of bells - Lawrence Joseph "A Fable"
Told by Homer once - Joyce Kilmer "Age Comes A-Wooing"
Six hundred years twice told - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
The swan's black vanguard told it - Dorothea Mackellar "Swallows"
While earth its scented secrets told - James Allan Mackereth "Ioläus"
Old secrets of the landscape told - Edgar Lee Masters "The Landscape"
Told on rosaries of drops of snow - Meredith Nicholson "Before the Fire"
Told time by the sun's position - Rosalie Sanara Petrouske "True North"
And told how Lethe's banks are filled - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems II: An Afternoon Soliloquy"
What the wind told the trees - Tim Seibles "Unmarked"
Told and retold by millions of bodies - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"
Here, in the one place we were told never to visit - Keith Taylor "For Marilyn and the Rootcellar"
The raw food we were told never to touch - Keith Taylor "For Marilyn and the Rootcellar"
The tales the sparrows told - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
What I've told you no one knows - Mary R. Whittlesey "The Secret" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Was told women must swallow sand - Dr. Seema Yasmin "My Sister Teaches Me How to Ululate"
What the fog told them not to see - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
Our salts can't forget what water told them - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
Told and retold to a highest bidder - Rachel Zucker "What Dark Thing"
Tremulous with pathos of a half-told tale - Lucy Larcom "The City Lights"
All those mistold stories for destiny - Vandana Khanna "Destruction Myth part 2"
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Telling the light to stay outside - Etel Adnan "Night"
To tell the dirt it belongs to you - Zaina Alsous "To a Young Poet"
The stories we hadn't planned to tell - Atticus "Magic in Adventure"
The pale-faced marble tells the softened tale - Astley H. Baldwin "The Well-Known Spot" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.733, 12 Jan. 1878]
Tell them about my debts to your mind - Ari Banias "Tribute"
I will tell you how to ask for bread - "Beg, Doggie, Beg" [Baby Chatterbox, 1880. On Project Gutenberg]
Damned souls had never much to tell - Stephen Vincent Benet "Prohibition"
Breezes will not tell us where - Sarah Jeannette Lathbury Brigham "Little Neighbors"
Wake without an alarm telling them - Jericho Brown "'N'em"
As if telling their sorrows - Sue Budin "'Passport, 1954'"
With speed and joy past telling - Wilhelm Busch "Plish and Plum" transl. by Charles Timothy Brooks
Sky knows more than Earth will tell - Anthony Butts "Song of Earth and Sky"
And the reckless wind is telling now - E.W.C. "November" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]
The whip-poor-will telling that night is at hand - F.B.C. "The Quadrupeds' Pic-Nic"
Longer than Memory's tongue can tell - R.M.C. "Lay of the Madman" [The Knickerbocker v.10, no.6, December 1837]
Tell me fifty thousand things - C.S. Calverley "Lines on Hearing the Organ"
If one arise to tell this truth - Tommaso Campanella "XXV. The People" transl. by John Addington Symonds
Till the rocket tells the star - W. Wilfred Campbell "Victoria"
One mighty blaze shall tell - Roger Casement "The Triumph of Hugh O'Neill"
Five teeth tell the sunburst story - Adrian Castro "A Cuban Modernist in Miami"
Could tell the meaning of that hidden charm - Mrs. M. T. W. Chandler "Thoughts from Bulwer" [The Knickerbocker Jan. 1844]
And tell him the history of his skin - Tina Chang "Fury"
the saddest lies are the ones we tell ourselves - Lucille Clifton "1994"
No tongue shall dare to tell - Arthur Hugh Clough "Peschiera"
Every nerve and sinew tell on ages - Arthur Cleveland Coxe "Onward"
Telling time by rain and candles - Leonard Cohen "For E.J.P."
Tell me quiet things - Hilda Conkling "Tell Me"
To tell where a rose has been - Susan Coolidge "Embalmed"
No more tongue to tell of the poppy - Giorgiomaria Cornelio "La specia storta (The Bent Species)" transl. by Moira Egan
Since my unequal pen essayed to tell - C.P. Cranch "Sorrento" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]
Tell wider prophecies to me - Isabella Valancy Crawford "The Axe of the Pioneer"
Tells a story the Woolworth Building may repeat - Waring Cuney "Dust" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
Tell the machines we honor their dead - Kyle Dargan "The Robots are Coming"
No one had to tell the devil - Tyree Daye "Don't Say Love Just Signal"
Shown the truth I shrank from telling - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Ever blessed be the day]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
Torment more than I can tell - Christine de Pisan "Ballad [Now in good sooth my joy is vanished clean]" (transl. by Laurence Binyon and Eric Robert Dalrymple Maclagan)
And what will we tell anyone who asks - Asa Delaney "The Schmidt Pain Index: A Love Story"
Who tells his need to Sunday bells - E.C. Dickinson "A Child's Voice"
Tell me the story of surrender - Chelsea Dingman "In the Third Trimester, They Can't Find a Heartbeat"
Tell how they labored to deceive - Anthony Euwer "The Long Bet"
The turf alone tells whence he sprung - D.F. "Monument and Turf" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.725, 17 Nov. 1877]
All the words the signpost tells - "Fairy's Album: V. Fairy's Dream"
But what can you tell me of sorrow - Tarfia Faizullah "Your Own Palm"
Blessed she who may tell her agony - Jessie Fauset "Noblesse Oblige" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
May not tell the change of time - R.O. Fenwick "The Goblin Groom"
The other dolls sit as I tell them they must - Hannah G. Fernald "A Troublesome Daughter" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
Luck is not my weather to tell - Jameson Fitzpatrick "Divorce Song"
Tell me no tale how Romans built - James Elroy Flecker "Hyali"
A new joy everytime [sic] in the telling - James W. Foley "Some One Like You"
Tell of hearts you've sadly broken - Mary Weston Fordham "Passing of the Old Year"
Tell of love dead and unspoken - Mary Weston Fordham "Passing of the Old Year"
Who see so little they tell no tales - Robert Frost "Pan with Us"
Nor let the dead leaves to us tell - Linda Gardiner "Long Ago" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.52--v.I, 27 Dec. 1884]
Tell a tale of changeless sorrow - Linda Gardiner "Long Ago" [Chamber's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art, 5th series, no.52--v.I, 27 Dec. 1884]
The monoliths tell me everything - Gwynne Garfinkle "Scenes from a Marriage"
Tell my bones that they are each a lamb remembered - Emerald ᏃᏈᏏ GoingSnake "Someday I'll Love--"
Let the whiskey tell the tale - Rigoberto Gonzalez "Mortui Vivos Docent"
I tell with equal truth and grief - W.H.H. "The Thief" [The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.14, no.403, 5 Dec. 1829]
Tell deep secrets to the Flower - Hafiz "The Divan XL" (translated by H. Bicknell)
Backstreet truth teller - Joy Harjo "Break My Heart"
Same old Hard Luck tales to tell - Oliver Herford "The Smoker's Year Book: November"
Cannot tell presence from memory - Sir Geoffrey Hill "Genius Loci"
Do tell why love must die - Jennie Earngey Hill "Song of the Brook"
Who can tell you not to mourn the dust? - Brenda Hillman "Porcelain Musician in a Child's Bedroom"
From lonely hearths too gray to tell - Ralph Hodgson "The Song of Honour"
Found no words to tell the thoughts - Lucy H. Hooper "Farewell" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, June 1873 v.XI no.27]
With dandelions to tell the hours - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad V"
The clock strikes the hour and tells the time to none - A.E. Housman "A Shropshire Lad LXI: Hughley Steeple"
Her cold volcanoes tell - Jean Ingelow "Honors. -- Part I."
I have risked the chrysalis of my brother by telling you this - Tamara Jerée "Warship Captain Application [Section 29.2 Saved as Draft in SAIS]"
Tell me you will share my stories - Jacqueline Jiang "If My Body Is Dying, Tell Me You Love Me"
Tell me the ones inside me are safe - Jacqueline Jiang "If My Body Is Dying, Tell Me You Love Me"
Don't tell me about the contracts you've made - Jacqueline Jiang "If My Body Is Dying, Tell Me You Love Me"
Tells a rosary of death - Lionel Johnson "Parnell"
A saxophone that tells on me - Taylor Johnson "Art Movie"
Tells no one except the sycamore - Judy Jordan "Prologue"
To tell the future what to be - Fady Joudah "[...]"
Hear the messages that Dreamers tell - H.G.K. "Day-Dreams of an Exile: VIII" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCXXXIII, Nov. 1851, v.LXX]
Tell you what I know - Ilya Kaminsky "Firing Squad"
Went telling of expatriate tears - T.M. Kettle "When Others See Us as We See Ourselves!"
Telling me which foot to put down first - Yusef Komunyakaa "Thanks"
Telling of joys that come no more - Frances Lamartine "Thistle-Down" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.3, March 1864]
Gathering crops whose worth no man might tell - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]
And tells to none the lore again - Rose Hawthorne Lathrop "Inlet and Shore"
Leaving nothing to tell me who they are - Philip Levine "Winter Words"
Could tell the truth of the future - M.L. Liebler "Trembling in the Temple of Tears at the Feet of Buddha"
A sundial telling no time - Kyle Carrero Lopez "Modern Fiction"
Tell me of your wrath-built Babel - William Lumley "Shadows" [Fantasy Fan v.1 no.9, May 1934]
an ancestor telling you to rise up - Sheila Maldonado "window on my part-time employer in the one building that was once two"
No song can tell it all - Edwin Markham "Joy of the Morning"
Clothes have a way of telling stories - Jeannette Marks "Obscurity"
Tell your golden tale - Jeannette Marks "Ravello"
The frogs would tell you if they could - Don Marquis "In the Bayou"
Tell my sorrows to the winds of dawn - Baba Rahim Mashrab "Love Ghazal of Mashrab (4)" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
Won't tell you that he worships Freedom - "The Masquerade of Freedom" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCXX, v.LXVIII, Oct. 1850]
To the oars the sea will tell - Maikof (Apollon Maykov) "The Kiss Refused" transl. by John Pollen
Tell the truth and sow the seeds of songs - Brandy Nālani McDougall "We Live We Live"
To tell time in the cold - Marc McKee "Hello, New Year"
Tell you your eyes are mirrors - Rachel Michaud "Crossing Over"
Tell you your eyes are windows - Rachel Michaud "Crossing Over"
The storm-seers failed to tell us - Devin Miller "The Malachite Storm"
Tell me why you grieve so wild - S. Isadore Miner "Old Scores Repaid, or Tragedy Reversed" [Our Young Folks at Home and Abroad (ed. by Daphne Dale), 1894]
Telling journalists they are looking into it - Poupeh Missaghi "Symptoms that May Be Signs of Some Things"
A family that did not tell the story - Brad Aaron Modlin "One Candle Now, Then Seven More"
I could tell of the splintered sun - N. Scott Momaday "Prayer for Words"
And can not tell what waits us at the brink - Harriet Monroe "A Hymn"
Tell me what color I should wear to a funeral - jessica Care moore "Wild Beauty"
And tell me our love is remembered - Thomas Moore (1779-1852) "At the Mid Hour of Night"
Return to tell Egypt the story - Thomas Moore "Sound the Loud Timbrel"
To tell foeman from brother - William Morris "The Pilgrims of Hope II: The Bridge and the Street"
Can't tell Gethsemane from the Garden of Eden - Paul Muldoon "A Rooster in Tepoztlan"
But who cried out nobody would tell - "Naughty Willie" [Fun and Frolic. No date. Edited by E.T. Roe.]
Wanting the oracle to tell me first - Hoa Nguyen "Revenge Poem"
Unto the ever hopeful future tell - Meredith Nicholson "Ruin"
Tell it to the wondering flowers - Meredith Nicholson "A Secret"
Do not hasten but pause to tell - Meredith Nicholson "Whereaway"
Tell the woods of their danger - O'Gnive, bard of Shane O'Neill, c.1560 "The Downfall of the Gael" transl. by Sir Samuel Ferguson
Not telling a lie for anyone - Sharon Olds "Suddenly"
A heartbeat telling stories in the dark - Matthew Olzmann "Astronomers Locate a New Planet"
To tell their anger at this clash of swords - Herbert E. Palmer "Nature in War-Time"
Whoever does the telling - Soham Patel "Mixed with always"
Whoever does the telling stops time - Soham Patel "Mixed with always:"
Not a stone tell where I lie - Alexander Pope "Ode on Solitude"
Telling the heart of their truth - Ezra Pound "Dum Capitolium Scandet"
Tells a golden story of the transfigured west - Horatio Nelson Powers "Delectatio Piscatoria" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Sept. 1880]
Like a psalm of green days telling - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Upon Eckington Bridge, River Avon"
Tell our stories of solitude spent in multitude - Adrienne Rich "Yom Kippur 1984"
Let them tell the history of thy crimes - Thomas Roscoe "The Tower of London.--A Poem" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLII, v.LVII, Feb. 1845]
The things he thought but did not tell - Sir Ronald Ross "The Parson and the Angel"
But who shall tell the dream? - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"
what this city of smoke & blood has to tell - Abu Bakr Sadiq "POST MASSACRE PSYCHE EVALUATION"
I'm scared of telling the truth - Abu Bakr Sadiq "POST MASSACRE PSYCHE EVALUATION"
May tell us how our flax and wheat arise - Friedrich Schiller "The Simple Peasant"
Telling myself something sweet and something sacred - Elizabeth Schmuhl "Premonitions: #98"
A song's sweet strains to tell - Jane Johnston Schoolcraft "Lines Written at Castle Island, Lake Superior" (transl. from the Anishinaabemowin either by the poet or by her husband)
Tell our tales of plasma waves - Ann K. Schwader "Void Music"
Tell the tale of tears - Clinton Scollard "The Little Creek Coonana"
But we have secrets I won't tell - "Secrets" [A Jolly Jingle Book (ed. by Laura Chandler). 1913]
The stories we do not dare to tell - Robert W. Service "The Ghosts"
The waves have a story to tell - Robert W. Service "The Three Voices"
Telling you my particular troubles - Diane Seuss "Poetry"
Fortune to brief minutes tell - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XIV"
And tell the ashes life is good - Francis Sherman "The Deserted City: The House of Change"
What tongue may tell the terror - B. Simmons "Mahmood the Ghazavide" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLIX, v.LVIII, Sept. 1845]
Telling me to go toward myself - Danez Smith "it won't be a bullet"
Tell the past the truth about itself - Maggie Smith "Joke"
Not a lie if the teller believes it - Maggie Smith "Parachute"
Shall I tell philosophy's fortune? - Marin Sorescu "Seneca" transl. by Michael Hamburger
Tell Zeal it wants devotion - Anonymous "The Soul's Errand"
Who knows a thing and will not tell - James Stephens "The College of Science"
Only the brook can tell - George Sterling "After the Storm"
Never tell of sorrowed things - George Sterling "The Peace of the Hills"
The twilight tells not which - George Sterling "Remorse"
The sands telling golden hours - Muriel Stuart "Boys Bathing"
The ruin in telling the truth - Nwuguru Chidiebere Sullivan "Gosh, It's Too Beautiful to Exist Briefly in a Parallel Planet"
Dare not tell your heart what it has suffered - Carmen Sylva "Rest"
That could not tell their too full joy - K.T. "Donald--A Pony" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.9-v.I, 1 March 1884]
Tell my sorrows to the Moon - Abdikheyir Khelil Tawakkul "Sharing My Sorrow" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun
To hear bold seraphs tell - Thomas Tickell "To the Earl of Warwick, on the Death of Addison"
To walk in the telling of things - Edwin Torres "The Intermission Clown"
Depending on what I can never tell - Emma Trelles "Corazón in Fall"
Tell me the secret of what comes next - Leah Umansky "I Want to be Stark[like]" [Poetry Jan. 2014]
Tell a rondelay in words of yesterday - Rudolph Valentino "Introduction"
Who can you trust to tell the story - Wang An-Shih "Reading History" transl. by David Hinton
We care not what old Homer tells - J. Wareham "The Trojan War, 1915" [The Anzac Book: Written and Illustrated in Gallipoli by the Men of Anzac, 1916]
Telling wonders from the sky - Isaac Watts "A Cradle Hymn"
No need to tell our errand - Arthur Weir "Pere Brosse"
For their worth can no man tell - "What the Clock Says" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Tell them that light is never a metaphor - Charles Wright "Shadow and Smoke"
Tell them the shadows are already gone - Charles Wright "Shadow and Smoke"
Tell the waves stay back - Dr. Seema Yasmin "My Sister Teaches Me How to Ululate"
No use telling the dead - Kevin Young "Ledge"
Inside me a need to tell the truth - Kamelya Omayma Yousseff "Amto remembers Hussein, Aljibbayn 1983"
In the bedtime story she tells herself - Timothy Yu "Chinese Dream 61"
Our knees tell truths - Javier Zamora "On a Dirt Road outside Oaxaca"
That never aches when I tell the truth - Matthew Zapruder "Haiku"
Will realize that I foretell their doom - Nico Martinez Nocito "To Be the Change"
By prophets long foretold - P.P. Pratt "The Millennium"
Conscious of the thing foretold - George Sterling "The Wiser Prophet"
As a spark foretells a flame - Sara Teasdale "From the Sea"
Throwing stars and fortune tellers - R.A. Villanueva "This dark is the same dark as when you close"
The tale of Yesterday retold - John B. Tabb "Dawn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Nov. 1889]
Told and retold by millions of bodies - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"
Told and retold to a highest bidder - Rachel Zucker "What Dark Thing"
Told us this war would never end - Duane Ackerson "The War on Terror"
Ever laugh at the fortunes told - Ellen Tracy Alden "A Centennial Tea-Pot"
With ready tongue her story told - Ellen Tracy Alden "Jungenthor, the Giant"
What is lost that never may be told? - William Allingham "Aeolian Harp"
Half-truths told and entire lies - Maya Angelou "In a Time"
Once without a word was told - G. Clifton Bingham "Sweet Day of Days" [Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 5th series, no.156, v.III, 25 Dec. 1886]
All the lies I should have told - Geoffrey Brock "Orpheus Variations. 2 In Which He Turns Inward"
Of higher hopes and prouder promise told - Prof. Wm. Campbell "An Evening Song" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Stories too painful to be told twice - Votey Cheav "When a Kingdom Falls/Shakti's Kisses"
Told in shadows on the grass - Benjamin Copeland "The Larger Life"
The whisper of gold, the story half told - Frank J. Cotter "The Land"
Know the secret that you told me long ago - G.A. Davis "The Sea's Secret" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.26, Aug. 1880]
Tales told in dim Eden - Walter de la Mare "All That's Past"
They told me Pan was dead - Walter de la Mare "They Told Me"
Told their secrets to the trees - Edward Dowden "Eurydice"
Told you right off this was a dream - Denise Duhamel "Sex with a Famous Poet"
She has never told me anything but the truth - Tarfia Faizullah "Wait Until It Grows Roots"
The sundial told in silence - Eleanor Farjeon "Dwellers in the Garden"
These secrets told are ruin - John Gay "Fable LIV: Ant in Office" [edited, updated, & adapted by John Benson Rose]
And told him of the joys that wisdom brings - Gladys May Casely Hayford "Nativity" [Caroling Dusk: An Anthology of Verse by Negro Poets, ed. by Countee Cullen, 1927]
The facts were told not to speak - Jane Hirshfield "On the Fifth Day"
Be told by tears - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"
Told by the mocking voice of fate - Rosa Vertner Jeffrey "Daisy Dare"
A shawl of sparks over a story I have never told - Emily Jiang & R.B. Lemberg "Salamander Song"
Told old stories to the night - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"
Told by the sound of bells - Lawrence Joseph "A Fable"
Told by Homer once - Joyce Kilmer "Age Comes A-Wooing"
Six hundred years twice told - Emily Lawless "The Inalienable Heritage"
The swan's black vanguard told it - Dorothea Mackellar "Swallows"
While earth its scented secrets told - James Allan Mackereth "Ioläus"
Old secrets of the landscape told - Edgar Lee Masters "The Landscape"
Told on rosaries of drops of snow - Meredith Nicholson "Before the Fire"
Told time by the sun's position - Rosalie Sanara Petrouske "True North"
And told how Lethe's banks are filled - Thomas Runciman "Miscellaneous Poems II: An Afternoon Soliloquy"
What the wind told the trees - Tim Seibles "Unmarked"
Told and retold by millions of bodies - Lehua M. Taitano "Imaginary Photo Album or, When We Die, Our Polaroids Speak to Our Living Descendants"
Here, in the one place we were told never to visit - Keith Taylor "For Marilyn and the Rootcellar"
The raw food we were told never to touch - Keith Taylor "For Marilyn and the Rootcellar"
The tales the sparrows told - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"
What I've told you no one knows - Mary R. Whittlesey "The Secret" [Happy Days for Boys and Girls, 1877]
Was told women must swallow sand - Dr. Seema Yasmin "My Sister Teaches Me How to Ululate"
What the fog told them not to see - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
Our salts can't forget what water told them - Jake Adam York "Letter Written in Black Water and Pearl"
Told and retold to a highest bidder - Rachel Zucker "What Dark Thing"
Tremulous with pathos of a half-told tale - Lucy Larcom "The City Lights"
All those mistold stories for destiny - Vandana Khanna "Destruction Myth part 2"
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