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Stunned with muted symphonies - Harold Acton "Green grow the Rushes, O"

Extending into a glittering muted ballroom - Daisy Aldan "The Bay"

With the mute heart's eloquence - Julia Alvarez "What Was It That I Wanted?"

Evicted from sleep's mute palace - Maya Angelou "Shaker, Why Don't You Sing?"

To join the mute divinity of things - Cameron Awkward-Rich "The Little Girl Is Not Certain About Ontology"

Grief and the mute universe - Mary Jo Bang "April Is Ending"

Come alive at the nod of a god grown mute - Stephen Vincent Benet "The First Vision of Helen"

Upward tips of their muted spray - Brian Blanchfield "Learning"

Some perishing mute shadow - Robert Bridges "There Is a Hill"

Mute in glory - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Drama of Exile"

Mute on the white edge of dawn - Laura Campbell "Pilgrimage"

Nature's mute and haughty horror - Giosue Carducci "Carnival: Voice from the Palace" transl. by Frank Sewall

gold crescendo and silver muting - E. E. Cummings "Amores (VII)"

Mute shadows creeping slow - Walter de la Mare "The Empty House"

Those orchards mute of song - Walter de la Mare "Two Houses"

A long muted chain of twisting keys - Chris Dombrowski "Fluvial"

The mute sky resigns itself to Night - Edward Dowden "By the Sea"

Rendered mute by all you do not know - Anne Evans "A New Variant"

A great fire muted by holy water - Camonghne Felix "Yes, It Is Possible"

Her mute song buried - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Nightingale"

Muted lips and wistful eyes - Zona Gale "There Are Within Us Lives We Never Live"

Mute memorial to the drowned - Dana Gioia "Seaward"

His pride twenty thousand years mute - Robert Graves "Unicorn and the White Doe"

Sit her down mute as Sorrow's daughter - Gretta "Lily Leslie" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Leads me through muted labyrinths - Anne Hebert "The Tomb of Kings" transl. by Kathleen Weaver

Among my muted dreams - Jeannette Fraser Henshall "Middle Creek, W. Va."

Mute as a mouse in a corner - Ralph Hodgson "Eve"

Wistful, muted brown - Malathi Michelle Ivengar "Sepia"

The muted music of the night - James Weldon Johnson "Vashti"

And deep and mute attention brought - Elvira Jones "Communion of the Sea and Sky" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXV no.3, Sept. 1849]

Though all earth's lips be mute - Louis V. Ledoux "A Threnody: In Memory of the Destruction of Messina by Earthquake"

The caves where all is mute - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "Apollo and Marsyas"

Fallen mute are the strings of Apollo - Don Marquis "The God-Maker, Man"

The mute smoothness of grey pearls - Joanne Merriam "No Words"

If my mute heart expresses me - N. Scott Momaday "Prayer for Words"

The morning star was mute - William Vaughan Moody "I Am the Woman"

A muted rumor of lament - Pablo Neruda "Cortes" transl. by John Felstiner

Touches hurtling mute waters - Pablo Neruda "Eternity" transl. by Jack Schmitt

As the night mutes every color - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"

The reminders in mute things - Stephanos Papadopoulos "The Station"

Mute parliament of each thing - Robert Pinsky "The Dig"

In a sky of mute chagrin - Isaac Rosenberg "Chagrin"

Mute thoughts on the mute walls around - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude"

And mute the mouth of our eternal need - Clark Ashton Smith "The Crucifixion of Eros"

Mute, unsentried walls and turrets climb - Clark Ashton Smith "A Dead City"

In vaster silence rendered mute - Clark Ashton Smith "Ode to the Abyss"

A breath upon her hand muted the night - Wallace Stevens "Peter Quince at the Clavier"

Faint as a muted violin - M. Letitia Stockett "Sounds"

Searching for the tomb of muted Song - Arthur Stringer "Sappho's Tomb"

That embalm the past in mute forgiveness - Carmen Sylva "A Room"

Mute were all the echoes of his soul - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]

Our world's a thin wash of muted tones - Keith Taylor "Sea and Ran: Lake Michigan"

Break the seals of mute despair unbidden - James Thomson "The City of Dreadful Night"

The argent eyes of Its mute mysteries - Emile Verhaeren "Les Villages Illusoires: The Silence" transl. by Alma Strettell

Mute and ominous prophecy - John Greenleaf Whittier "Snow-Bound"

Among voices and silences already muted - Veronica Zondek "cold fire 10" transl. by Katherine Silver


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