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Potential Titles: Silent
Silent stands, with no money in his hands - "Abroad"
In front of silent ghosts - Kelli Russell Agodon "Snapshot of a Lump"
A silent, mammoth thing that overwhelmed me - Elizabeth Alexander "Tending"
Drag her silent from the hedgerow maze - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
A necklace of silent vowels - Zaina Alsous "Bird Prelude"
A silent language which can speak - Lennox Amott "Stanzas Addressed to a Lady Coming of Age"
Dazzling feet pursue their silent way - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.I--Sunrise"
The silent tenants of the sea - Benjamin West Ball "Autumn"
With a silent heart's potential - Mary Jo Bang "One Thing"
Silent orchestra of purple trumpets - Rachel Barenblat "Peak"
On folded wings secret and silent - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dark Angel"
Each silent voice we miss - Cora C. Bass "The Perfect Song"
Treading the shadows silently - Charles Baudelaire "The Ghost" transl. not credited
The silent page of the end - Dan Beachy-Quick "Some Consequences of the Made Thing"
The silent page of the beginning - Dan Beachy-Quick "Some Consequences of the Made Thing"
Through the lone watches of the silent night - Alex. Lacey Beard, M.D. "A Sketch" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Most silent in those solitudes - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lonely Burial"
The souls of trees are silent - Paul Bernstein "Footfall"
Pale Queen of the silent night - Charles Best "A Sonnet of the Moon"
Must desecrate this silent time - Paul Bewsher "The Night Raid"
The silent distance between us - Richard Blanco "Papa's Bridge"
The owl that silent flits - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"
Marshalled armies in the silent air - Edmund Blunden "The Scythe"
Somehow silent in lines of flesh - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"
In silent night when rest I took - Anne Bradstreet "Verses upon the Burning of our House"
Constant and strong its silent course - Anne Bronte "Past Days"
With floods of silent tears - Anne Bronte "To Cowper"
The vacant nest and silent song - Emily Bronte "Death"
Silent sign of winter skies - Emily Bronte "To a Wreath of Snow"
Silent sunlight dreams of sleep - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"
Which perished silently - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Sea-Side Walk"
His chamber in the silent halls of death - William Cullen Bryant "To Live"
Darkness silently unfurls among colossal ruins - Howell Calhoun "The Lost Temples of Xantoos" [Weird Tales Oct. 1936]
Gaunt shadow-ships drift silent - F. O. Call "A River Sunset"
The old gods stand silently - Skipwith Cannell "Wild Songs: In the Forest"
Stand silently behind the silent trees - Skipwith Cannell "Wild Songs: In the Forest"
And silent fall the dews - J.E.A. Carver "Evening"
And all that dies silently - Ana Castillo "A Amazonia esta queimando"
A silent girl is never safe - Jennifer Chang "Obedience, or the Lying Tale"
Ride through the silent earthquake lands - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
silent in the long approach - Lucille Clifton "down the tram"
I was silent the whole way - Jie Cohen "Venus Limbs"
By process of the silent years - Arthur Colton "As We Grow Old"
Their song is silent - Hilda Conkling "Night Goes Rushing By"
The silent shuttles of life's loom - Benjamin Copeland "The Font, the Altar, and the Tomb"
Old Neptune's silent builder - "The Corsair"
Imperturable and silent years - James H. Cousins "On Some Twentieth Century Forecasts"
Our mockings of the silent seers - James H. Cousins "On Some Twentieth Century Forecasts"
The silent midnight waters - James H. Cousins "The Southern Cross"
Silently into eternity - Hart Crane "North Labrador"
In a time of silent horizons - Shutta Crum "Hitchhiker"
The silent chapel of a pine forest in winter - Shutta Crum "No Mansions for Me"
a noise of petals falling silently - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
Shining clusters round the silent dead - Olive Custance "Candle-Light"
The silent dancing of my soul - Olive Custance "The Magic Mirrors"
From lonely downs and silent woods - Olive Custance "The Vision"
Silent until my song - H.D. "Flute Song"
A silent company of fears - Danske Dandridge "The Phantom"
Dreams are silent - Jim Daniels "The Gravity of Math"
The silent runes that bind me here - Deborah L. Davitt "Blå Jungfrun"
My candle a silent fire - Walter de la Mare "Alone"
To creep from out the silent skies - Walter de la Mare "Full Moon"
silent music notes falling into night - Cenizas de Rosas "Bone Flute"
silent notes falling into dust and darkness - Cenizas de Rosas "Bone Flute"
And the pale moon came up silently - Lord Alfred Douglas "In Summer"
Ringing their own silent bells - Stephen Dunn "From the Tower at the Top of the Winding Stairs"
Growing one with its silent stream - A.E. "By the Margin of the Great Deep"
Even the roosters fall silent - Aziz Isa Elkun "Father" transl. by author
Turned and departed silent - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Days"
Silent as those pennies - John Olivares Espinoza "Economics at Gemco"
Until the doorknob went silent - Tarfia Faizullah "100 Bells"
The chastity of silent woe - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
To her silent couch retired - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
Will implode silent on our signal - Henry Farnan "How to Make Contact with a Lost Star System"
Seek our welcome in a silent tear - Effie Fitzgerald "The Babes of Exile"
In silent places an older silence broods - Robin Flower "The Pipes"
Grew still with silent worship - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
Silent and swift as the flight of Time - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"
And death admit me to the silent ways - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "The Island Grave"
When birds are silent and oxen drowse - Rosa Gilbert "Song [The silent bird is hid in the boughs]"
A thousand stars silently bursting - Nikita Gill "After the Visit"
Wandered the silent ruins of my city - Dana Gioia "Psalm and Lament for Los Angeles"
In the Muses' silent groves - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "[No one talks more than a Poet]" (transl. by Edgar Alfred Bowring)
In a silent spheric tune - Louis Golding "Who Knows Me?"
From age to age in silent witness stand - Herbert H. Gowen "Jerusalem 1917"
Gather here in silent meeting - Robert Graves "Cherry-Time"
Even our own souls were silent - Linda Gregerson "At the Window"
Though the silent mountains should defy me - Edgar A. Guest "If I Had Youth"
As a reminder to grieve silently - Farah Habad "And out of the ashes"
Hired for your silent hammer - Patricia Hampl "This Is How Memory Works"
Listen to the caves sing silently - Nathalie Handal "Accepting Heaven at Great Basin"
Ice that wolves trample silently - Myronn Hardy "Solemnity"
Such delicate flowers falling silent - Leslie Harrison "[December]"
Who silently languish in grief's fearful night - Robert M. Hart "Sweet Maid of Erin" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Upon the silent sea-swept land - Sadakichi Hartmann "Nocturne"
Silent laughter and an open mouth - Robert Hass "Tomas Transtromer: Song"
And curse themselves silent - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender: Praeludium"
Bring our silent names there hoping we are forgiven - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"
To its covert glides the silent bird - José María Heredia "The Hurricane" transl. by William Cullen Bryant
Under the silent claw of the predator - Brenda Hillman "1951"
Even ice was not silent - Linda Hogan "Map"
From the silent sleep of years - Marietta Holley "The Lament of the Mormon Wife"
Hear my silent voice - Lee Bennett Hopkins "Painter"
The pelican of the silent North - Mary Howitt "The Northern Seas"
Silent in their captors' train - Richard Hughes "The Singing Furies"
The glad silent moments as they pass - Leigh Hunt "The Grasshopper and the Cricket"
Where mountains throw their silent spell - Aldous Huxley "Scenes of the Mind"
Jocund sports beguile the silent hours - J.H.I. "Ethelbert and Elfrida" [The Mirror of Literature issue 576 Nov 17 1832]
A single step turned a silent truce - Emily Igwike "my mother prepares ofe egusi"
Beside each silent blade - Alex A. Irvine "The Gleaners"
With the bones inside us silently howling - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
Trust not to her silent tongue - Alexander Jamieson "The Maid Who Wove"
The silent house of sleep - Lionel Johnson "Bronte"
Call back to my silent memories - Lionel Johnson "Renegade"
My enemy, silent and personal - Taylor Johnson "Menace to"
Retrace her silent footsteps - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "As in a Rose-Jar"
With wild regrets and silent pain - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "Violets"
That humble birds to silent flight - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"
In the depths of silent time - Lawrence Joseph "So Where Are We?"
Shrined in yon silent stream - Fanny Kemble "Lines Written at Night"
Give welcome to my silent feet - Joyce Kilmer "Madness"
Silent stubborn brambles - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"
Back to that silent evening - Galway Kinnell "That Silent Evening"
In low, silent voices - Galway Kinnell "That Silent Evening"
Silent beyond the flexing of metal - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"
Dreams and silent frostiness - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"
Silent friend that guarded well - Archibald Lampman "God-Speed to the Snow"
With their silent fronts of stone - Archibald Lampman "The Woodcutter's Hut"
Secret and silent their footsteps - Emily Lawless "From the Burren XIII: Evening"
Of dauntless, silent violets - D.H. Lawrence "Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers"
Arose in silent rebuke and defiance - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
Wakening amid the silent ruins of Zion - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
The pure, upright ringing of a silent trajectory - Sammy Lê "Lotus Descends to Visit Nova"
With silent hearts now call - Frances Ledwidge "In September"
All voice, though silent - Denise Levertov "To Rilke"
at night, the glass steps are silent - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "the mezzanine"
All my being's silent harmonies wake trembling - Amy Lowell "Dreams"
Silent sunbeams through the window pour - Amy Lowell "On Carpaccio's Picture: The Dream of St. Ursula"
Silently enjoying isolation - Lu Yun "The Valley Wind" (translated by Arthur Waley)
A thought shuddered through the silent deep - Thomas MacDonagh "The Night Hunt"
Have strayed from silent places - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Indian Summer"
Flowing silent in the shade - Dorothea Mackellar "Canticle"
Strange is the silent guest - Kate Seymour MacLean "Ballad of the Mad Ladye"
The bridge across the silent river gone - Archibald MacLeish "You, Andrew Marvell"
Silent ghosts in a bewildered dream - Naomi Long Madgett "Where Do We Go?"
Together, till the end, in silent seas - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"
Silent but silver-tongued - Sally Wen Mao "Occidentalism"
Into silent depths of every heart - Edwin Markham "Infinite Depths"
A silent army of phantoms thronging - John Masefield "on Eastnor Knoll"
That come and go with silent feet - John McCrae "Slumber Songs"
Drunken pirates in a silent film - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"
The silent thunder of thy power - Claude McKay "Poetry"
With the strange chill of the silent heart - D'Arcy McNickle "Old Isidore"
A downcast silent regret - Frank J. Medina "Loneliness"
Nor ask the silent to give sound - George Meredith "Woodland Peace"
Only the silent logic of our flight - Michael Mesic "Swallows"
Have been forced to speak silently - Claire Millikin "August Sander's 'Man with Dancing Bear, 1928, Westerwald'"
Silent as a dying star - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Madear Tests Positive"
One lone heart for Summer silent grieves - William Moore "Here in the Time of the Winter Morn"
Run silently between parched banks - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "History" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
The silent weeping of rocks - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"
And whirlwinds of silent coal - Pablo Neruda "The Disinterred One" translated by Donald D. Walsh
A chorus still more silent - Pablo Neruda "Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid
Surrounded by silent geography - Pablo Neruda "Unity" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Silent in my lungs - Aimee Nezhukumatahil "Hummingbird Abecedarian"
In the silent blooming of memory - Grace Nichols "Georgetown"
The silent scales of their music - Grace Nichols "If I Were to Meet"
Rose before the silent conqueror - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
When silent chords are shaken - Walter S. Percy "Grief and Joy"
Lost with silent eloquence - Walter S. Percy "Last of the Grand Army"
Silent in the birth of another shadow - Jon Pineda "The Muse, or Stars Out on Interstate 81 South"
The distant brim of silent waters - E.J. Pratt "Evening"
Through the silent tenure of the night - E.J. Pratt "Sea Variations"
The pale full moon, in silent pride - Geo. D. Prentiss "Lines [The Sunset's sweet and holy blush]"
The silent hand on my shoulder - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "A soliloquy before time"
The silent beauty of the noon - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "On a Battle Field"
Sweet are the silent places - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Silent Places"
Stretching above the silent palisade - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Silent Places"
The brook is silent when it mirrors most - Thomas Buchanan Read "A Night Thought" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Shadows brood among the silent valleys - Edward S. Rend, Jr. "Promise" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]
The infinity of these silent spaces - Adrienne Rich "Messages"
In God's garden they are silent - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Angels" transl. by Jessie Lemont
While Death stalks free in the silent world - Lloyd Roberts "At the Year's End"
Roland's ghost winding a silent horn - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Mr. Flood's Party"
Through the closed crevice of its silent door - Alice Wellington Rollins "Closed"
Silent rays still tranquil and serene - Alice Wellington Rollins "Steadfast"
She steps silent from the sky onto sand - Hester J. Rook "The Sparrows in Her Hair"
Weave silent dances around him - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"
Exalted, deathly, silent, and alone - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"
Let love be silent - Jason Schneiderman "Wedding Poem for Ada & Lucas"
Pass great worlds of silent stone - Frederick George Scott "My Lattice"
Upon the silent face of a dark dial in a sunless place - "The Sea of Death"
Sessions of sweet silent thought - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXX"
The last few drops of light drain silently - Edward Shanks "A Night-Piece"
May interpret to his silent years - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Dedication of the Revolt of Islam to His Wife"
A secret, silent, sparkling sight - Joyce Sidman "In the Almost-Light"
Reappear in silent symphonic gestures - Cedar Sigo "Arsenal 4"
Stood in silent ranks expectant - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Where the silent maelstroms lurk and hide - Clark Ashton Smith "The Song of the Stars"
A deadly silent digging in - Tracy K. Smith "Mothership"
The silent who and almighty why - Arthur Solway "What Is Not"
To sound the silent skies - Leonora Speyer "Enigma"
In silent prophecy of lavish yield - Robert J.C. Stead "The Plow"
Underneath the silent sky - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"
Silent as her heavy-petalled rose - George Sterling "To Ruth Chatterton"
Only in silent shadows and in dreams - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"
And the silent armies of death - Robert Louis Stevenson "The Song of Rahero: II. The Venging of Tamatea"
The bitter wind has banished the silent nightingale - Richard Henry Stoddard "A Winter Scene"
Bastioned in wonder and silent with fear - Arthur Stringer "The Veil"
White silent owls of snow - L.A.G. Strong "The Bird Man"
Spellbound, silent, down a shimmering track of light - Alan Sullivan "The Widower's Lullaby"
Rolled silent with somnolent fish - Alison Swan "Before the Snow Moon"
Silent in her home oak - Alison Swan "The Old Days"
The raccoon's prowl was almost silent - May Swenson "Rain at Wildwood"
The hushed and silent waters of the deep - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
All our conversations and laughter are silent - Luci Tapahonso "Wooden Window Frames"
Strong enough to be silent - Sara Teasdale "What Do I Care?"
A silent place that once rang loud - Edward Thomas "The Chalk-Pit"
Riding the dark surge silently - Edward Thomas "Two Pewits"
The silent air is thinking of nothing - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: VII. Ripples"
And the winds of heaven are silent - "Treasure-Trove" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]
Distil its rich and silent dews - Richard Chenevix Trench "Dedicatory Lines"
Where the thin silver soul of the stars silently dances - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"
Every tree is a silent brother - Louis Untermeyer "Summer Night--Broadway"
The silent years skipped over - John Updike "Doo-Wap"
The trickster god of silent films - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
A slow dance moving to some silent blues - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Red Shawl"
Night shall weep her silent tears - Charles William Wallace "Good-Night: Infant"
Knew the silent gates and walls - Charles Weekes "Dreams"
A heart sewn silent - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Shape Shift"
Sit and watch the silent rain - Helen Hay Whitney "To the Beloved"
In silent attitudes of attention - William Carlos Williams "The Old Men"
The moon upon her silent spindle - Humbert Wolfe "The Unknown God: II. Paul"
Intensified in the silent distance between - Elizabeth Woody "Meetings"
Wish to be silent in this air - C. Dale Young "Praise"
Adding silent spices and hot sauce - Kevin Young "The Dry Spell"
Spinning through my silent heart - Zheng Min "The Beauty of Life: Suffering*Struggle*Endurance" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Wear away with silent beat - Zitkála-Šá "Iris of Life"
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Century-silent, shadowy mazes - Edward Dowden "To Hester"
To the shores of silent-dark and back - Deborah Landau "Flesh"
Visions leave us silent-hearted - Lennox Amott "Bright Scenes Must All Depart"
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In front of silent ghosts - Kelli Russell Agodon "Snapshot of a Lump"
A silent, mammoth thing that overwhelmed me - Elizabeth Alexander "Tending"
Drag her silent from the hedgerow maze - Mike Allen "Carrington's Ferry"
A necklace of silent vowels - Zaina Alsous "Bird Prelude"
A silent language which can speak - Lennox Amott "Stanzas Addressed to a Lady Coming of Age"
Dazzling feet pursue their silent way - William Anderson "Landscape Lyrics No.I--Sunrise"
The silent tenants of the sea - Benjamin West Ball "Autumn"
With a silent heart's potential - Mary Jo Bang "One Thing"
Silent orchestra of purple trumpets - Rachel Barenblat "Peak"
On folded wings secret and silent - Elizabeth Bartlett "Dark Angel"
Each silent voice we miss - Cora C. Bass "The Perfect Song"
Treading the shadows silently - Charles Baudelaire "The Ghost" transl. not credited
The silent page of the end - Dan Beachy-Quick "Some Consequences of the Made Thing"
The silent page of the beginning - Dan Beachy-Quick "Some Consequences of the Made Thing"
Through the lone watches of the silent night - Alex. Lacey Beard, M.D. "A Sketch" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Most silent in those solitudes - Stephen Vincent Benet "Lonely Burial"
The souls of trees are silent - Paul Bernstein "Footfall"
Pale Queen of the silent night - Charles Best "A Sonnet of the Moon"
Must desecrate this silent time - Paul Bewsher "The Night Raid"
The silent distance between us - Richard Blanco "Papa's Bridge"
The owl that silent flits - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Forester"
Marshalled armies in the silent air - Edmund Blunden "The Scythe"
Somehow silent in lines of flesh - Max Bodenheim "Nightmare and Something Delicate"
In silent night when rest I took - Anne Bradstreet "Verses upon the Burning of our House"
Constant and strong its silent course - Anne Bronte "Past Days"
With floods of silent tears - Anne Bronte "To Cowper"
The vacant nest and silent song - Emily Bronte "Death"
Silent sign of winter skies - Emily Bronte "To a Wreath of Snow"
Silent sunlight dreams of sleep - Stopford A. Brooke "Song (From 'Six Days')"
Which perished silently - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Sea-Side Walk"
His chamber in the silent halls of death - William Cullen Bryant "To Live"
Darkness silently unfurls among colossal ruins - Howell Calhoun "The Lost Temples of Xantoos" [Weird Tales Oct. 1936]
Gaunt shadow-ships drift silent - F. O. Call "A River Sunset"
The old gods stand silently - Skipwith Cannell "Wild Songs: In the Forest"
Stand silently behind the silent trees - Skipwith Cannell "Wild Songs: In the Forest"
And silent fall the dews - J.E.A. Carver "Evening"
And all that dies silently - Ana Castillo "A Amazonia esta queimando"
A silent girl is never safe - Jennifer Chang "Obedience, or the Lying Tale"
Ride through the silent earthquake lands - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Dedication"
silent in the long approach - Lucille Clifton "down the tram"
I was silent the whole way - Jie Cohen "Venus Limbs"
By process of the silent years - Arthur Colton "As We Grow Old"
Their song is silent - Hilda Conkling "Night Goes Rushing By"
The silent shuttles of life's loom - Benjamin Copeland "The Font, the Altar, and the Tomb"
Old Neptune's silent builder - "The Corsair"
Imperturable and silent years - James H. Cousins "On Some Twentieth Century Forecasts"
Our mockings of the silent seers - James H. Cousins "On Some Twentieth Century Forecasts"
The silent midnight waters - James H. Cousins "The Southern Cross"
Silently into eternity - Hart Crane "North Labrador"
In a time of silent horizons - Shutta Crum "Hitchhiker"
The silent chapel of a pine forest in winter - Shutta Crum "No Mansions for Me"
a noise of petals falling silently - E. E. Cummings "Songs (I)"
Shining clusters round the silent dead - Olive Custance "Candle-Light"
The silent dancing of my soul - Olive Custance "The Magic Mirrors"
From lonely downs and silent woods - Olive Custance "The Vision"
Silent until my song - H.D. "Flute Song"
A silent company of fears - Danske Dandridge "The Phantom"
Dreams are silent - Jim Daniels "The Gravity of Math"
The silent runes that bind me here - Deborah L. Davitt "Blå Jungfrun"
My candle a silent fire - Walter de la Mare "Alone"
To creep from out the silent skies - Walter de la Mare "Full Moon"
silent music notes falling into night - Cenizas de Rosas "Bone Flute"
silent notes falling into dust and darkness - Cenizas de Rosas "Bone Flute"
And the pale moon came up silently - Lord Alfred Douglas "In Summer"
Ringing their own silent bells - Stephen Dunn "From the Tower at the Top of the Winding Stairs"
Growing one with its silent stream - A.E. "By the Margin of the Great Deep"
Even the roosters fall silent - Aziz Isa Elkun "Father" transl. by author
Turned and departed silent - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Days"
Silent as those pennies - John Olivares Espinoza "Economics at Gemco"
Until the doorknob went silent - Tarfia Faizullah "100 Bells"
The chastity of silent woe - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
To her silent couch retired - William Falconer "The Shipwreck: Canto I"
Will implode silent on our signal - Henry Farnan "How to Make Contact with a Lost Star System"
Seek our welcome in a silent tear - Effie Fitzgerald "The Babes of Exile"
In silent places an older silence broods - Robin Flower "The Pipes"
Grew still with silent worship - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"
Silent and swift as the flight of Time - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"
And death admit me to the silent ways - Sri Aurobindo Ghose "The Island Grave"
When birds are silent and oxen drowse - Rosa Gilbert "Song [The silent bird is hid in the boughs]"
A thousand stars silently bursting - Nikita Gill "After the Visit"
Wandered the silent ruins of my city - Dana Gioia "Psalm and Lament for Los Angeles"
In the Muses' silent groves - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe "[No one talks more than a Poet]" (transl. by Edgar Alfred Bowring)
In a silent spheric tune - Louis Golding "Who Knows Me?"
From age to age in silent witness stand - Herbert H. Gowen "Jerusalem 1917"
Gather here in silent meeting - Robert Graves "Cherry-Time"
Even our own souls were silent - Linda Gregerson "At the Window"
Though the silent mountains should defy me - Edgar A. Guest "If I Had Youth"
As a reminder to grieve silently - Farah Habad "And out of the ashes"
Hired for your silent hammer - Patricia Hampl "This Is How Memory Works"
Listen to the caves sing silently - Nathalie Handal "Accepting Heaven at Great Basin"
Ice that wolves trample silently - Myronn Hardy "Solemnity"
Such delicate flowers falling silent - Leslie Harrison "[December]"
Who silently languish in grief's fearful night - Robert M. Hart "Sweet Maid of Erin" [Beadle's Dime Union Song Book No.2 1861]
Upon the silent sea-swept land - Sadakichi Hartmann "Nocturne"
Silent laughter and an open mouth - Robert Hass "Tomas Transtromer: Song"
And curse themselves silent - William Ernest Henley "Hawthorn and Lavender: Praeludium"
Bring our silent names there hoping we are forgiven - Lance Henson "Untitled [Here is a place where nothing can die]"
To its covert glides the silent bird - José María Heredia "The Hurricane" transl. by William Cullen Bryant
Under the silent claw of the predator - Brenda Hillman "1951"
Even ice was not silent - Linda Hogan "Map"
From the silent sleep of years - Marietta Holley "The Lament of the Mormon Wife"
Hear my silent voice - Lee Bennett Hopkins "Painter"
The pelican of the silent North - Mary Howitt "The Northern Seas"
Silent in their captors' train - Richard Hughes "The Singing Furies"
The glad silent moments as they pass - Leigh Hunt "The Grasshopper and the Cricket"
Where mountains throw their silent spell - Aldous Huxley "Scenes of the Mind"
Jocund sports beguile the silent hours - J.H.I. "Ethelbert and Elfrida" [The Mirror of Literature issue 576 Nov 17 1832]
A single step turned a silent truce - Emily Igwike "my mother prepares ofe egusi"
Beside each silent blade - Alex A. Irvine "The Gleaners"
With the bones inside us silently howling - Tylor James "I Grew Up in a Haunted House"
Trust not to her silent tongue - Alexander Jamieson "The Maid Who Wove"
The silent house of sleep - Lionel Johnson "Bronte"
Call back to my silent memories - Lionel Johnson "Renegade"
My enemy, silent and personal - Taylor Johnson "Menace to"
Retrace her silent footsteps - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "As in a Rose-Jar"
With wild regrets and silent pain - Thomas S. Jones, Jr. "Violets"
That humble birds to silent flight - June Jordan "Poem for Nana"
In the depths of silent time - Lawrence Joseph "So Where Are We?"
Shrined in yon silent stream - Fanny Kemble "Lines Written at Night"
Give welcome to my silent feet - Joyce Kilmer "Madness"
Silent stubborn brambles - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"
Back to that silent evening - Galway Kinnell "That Silent Evening"
In low, silent voices - Galway Kinnell "That Silent Evening"
Silent beyond the flexing of metal - John Kinsella "Reptile in Roof Space"
Dreams and silent frostiness - Archibald Lampman "Before Sleep"
Silent friend that guarded well - Archibald Lampman "God-Speed to the Snow"
With their silent fronts of stone - Archibald Lampman "The Woodcutter's Hut"
Secret and silent their footsteps - Emily Lawless "From the Burren XIII: Evening"
Of dauntless, silent violets - D.H. Lawrence "Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers"
Arose in silent rebuke and defiance - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
Wakening amid the silent ruins of Zion - Emma Lazarus "By the Waters of Babylon"
The pure, upright ringing of a silent trajectory - Sammy Lê "Lotus Descends to Visit Nova"
With silent hearts now call - Frances Ledwidge "In September"
All voice, though silent - Denise Levertov "To Rilke"
at night, the glass steps are silent - Vivian (Xiao Wen) Li "the mezzanine"
All my being's silent harmonies wake trembling - Amy Lowell "Dreams"
Silent sunbeams through the window pour - Amy Lowell "On Carpaccio's Picture: The Dream of St. Ursula"
Silently enjoying isolation - Lu Yun "The Valley Wind" (translated by Arthur Waley)
A thought shuddered through the silent deep - Thomas MacDonagh "The Night Hunt"
Have strayed from silent places - Isabel Ecclestone Mackay "Indian Summer"
Flowing silent in the shade - Dorothea Mackellar "Canticle"
Strange is the silent guest - Kate Seymour MacLean "Ballad of the Mad Ladye"
The bridge across the silent river gone - Archibald MacLeish "You, Andrew Marvell"
Silent ghosts in a bewildered dream - Naomi Long Madgett "Where Do We Go?"
Together, till the end, in silent seas - Shreejita Majumder "A Slow Apocalypse"
Silent but silver-tongued - Sally Wen Mao "Occidentalism"
Into silent depths of every heart - Edwin Markham "Infinite Depths"
A silent army of phantoms thronging - John Masefield "on Eastnor Knoll"
That come and go with silent feet - John McCrae "Slumber Songs"
Drunken pirates in a silent film - Campbell McGrath "Joseph Brodsky in Venice (1981)"
The silent thunder of thy power - Claude McKay "Poetry"
With the strange chill of the silent heart - D'Arcy McNickle "Old Isidore"
A downcast silent regret - Frank J. Medina "Loneliness"
Nor ask the silent to give sound - George Meredith "Woodland Peace"
Only the silent logic of our flight - Michael Mesic "Swallows"
Have been forced to speak silently - Claire Millikin "August Sander's 'Man with Dancing Bear, 1928, Westerwald'"
Silent as a dying star - Kamilah Aisha Moon "Madear Tests Positive"
One lone heart for Summer silent grieves - William Moore "Here in the Time of the Winter Morn"
Run silently between parched banks - Ghojimuhemmed Muhemmed "History" transl. by Joshua L. Freeman
The silent weeping of rocks - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"
And whirlwinds of silent coal - Pablo Neruda "The Disinterred One" translated by Donald D. Walsh
A chorus still more silent - Pablo Neruda "Serenade" transl. by Alastair Reid
Surrounded by silent geography - Pablo Neruda "Unity" translated by Donald D. Walsh
Silent in my lungs - Aimee Nezhukumatahil "Hummingbird Abecedarian"
In the silent blooming of memory - Grace Nichols "Georgetown"
The silent scales of their music - Grace Nichols "If I Were to Meet"
Rose before the silent conqueror - Alfred Noyes "Aristotle"
When silent chords are shaken - Walter S. Percy "Grief and Joy"
Lost with silent eloquence - Walter S. Percy "Last of the Grand Army"
Silent in the birth of another shadow - Jon Pineda "The Muse, or Stars Out on Interstate 81 South"
The distant brim of silent waters - E.J. Pratt "Evening"
Through the silent tenure of the night - E.J. Pratt "Sea Variations"
The pale full moon, in silent pride - Geo. D. Prentiss "Lines [The Sunset's sweet and holy blush]"
The silent hand on my shoulder - Yousif M. Qasmiyeh "A soliloquy before time"
The silent beauty of the noon - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "On a Battle Field"
Sweet are the silent places - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Silent Places"
Stretching above the silent palisade - Marguerite Radclyffe-Hall "Silent Places"
The brook is silent when it mirrors most - Thomas Buchanan Read "A Night Thought" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.4, Oct. 1848]
Shadows brood among the silent valleys - Edward S. Rend, Jr. "Promise" [The Continental Monthly v.3 no.1, March 1863]
The infinity of these silent spaces - Adrienne Rich "Messages"
In God's garden they are silent - Rainer Maria Rilke "The Angels" transl. by Jessie Lemont
While Death stalks free in the silent world - Lloyd Roberts "At the Year's End"
Roland's ghost winding a silent horn - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Mr. Flood's Party"
Through the closed crevice of its silent door - Alice Wellington Rollins "Closed"
Silent rays still tranquil and serene - Alice Wellington Rollins "Steadfast"
She steps silent from the sky onto sand - Hester J. Rook "The Sparrows in Her Hair"
Weave silent dances around him - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"
Exalted, deathly, silent, and alone - Vita Sackville-West "The Land"
Let love be silent - Jason Schneiderman "Wedding Poem for Ada & Lucas"
Pass great worlds of silent stone - Frederick George Scott "My Lattice"
Upon the silent face of a dark dial in a sunless place - "The Sea of Death"
Sessions of sweet silent thought - William Shakespeare "Sonnet XXX"
The last few drops of light drain silently - Edward Shanks "A Night-Piece"
May interpret to his silent years - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Dedication of the Revolt of Islam to His Wife"
A secret, silent, sparkling sight - Joyce Sidman "In the Almost-Light"
Reappear in silent symphonic gestures - Cedar Sigo "Arsenal 4"
Stood in silent ranks expectant - Clark Ashton Smith "Saturn"
Where the silent maelstroms lurk and hide - Clark Ashton Smith "The Song of the Stars"
A deadly silent digging in - Tracy K. Smith "Mothership"
The silent who and almighty why - Arthur Solway "What Is Not"
To sound the silent skies - Leonora Speyer "Enigma"
In silent prophecy of lavish yield - Robert J.C. Stead "The Plow"
Underneath the silent sky - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"
Silent as her heavy-petalled rose - George Sterling "To Ruth Chatterton"
Only in silent shadows and in dreams - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"
And the silent armies of death - Robert Louis Stevenson "The Song of Rahero: II. The Venging of Tamatea"
The bitter wind has banished the silent nightingale - Richard Henry Stoddard "A Winter Scene"
Bastioned in wonder and silent with fear - Arthur Stringer "The Veil"
White silent owls of snow - L.A.G. Strong "The Bird Man"
Spellbound, silent, down a shimmering track of light - Alan Sullivan "The Widower's Lullaby"
Rolled silent with somnolent fish - Alison Swan "Before the Snow Moon"
Silent in her home oak - Alison Swan "The Old Days"
The raccoon's prowl was almost silent - May Swenson "Rain at Wildwood"
The hushed and silent waters of the deep - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
All our conversations and laughter are silent - Luci Tapahonso "Wooden Window Frames"
Strong enough to be silent - Sara Teasdale "What Do I Care?"
A silent place that once rang loud - Edward Thomas "The Chalk-Pit"
Riding the dark surge silently - Edward Thomas "Two Pewits"
The silent air is thinking of nothing - Edward Thring "Borth Lyrics: VII. Ripples"
And the winds of heaven are silent - "Treasure-Trove" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.5, Nov. 1863]
Distil its rich and silent dews - Richard Chenevix Trench "Dedicatory Lines"
Where the thin silver soul of the stars silently dances - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"
Every tree is a silent brother - Louis Untermeyer "Summer Night--Broadway"
The silent years skipped over - John Updike "Doo-Wap"
The trickster god of silent films - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
A slow dance moving to some silent blues - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Red Shawl"
Night shall weep her silent tears - Charles William Wallace "Good-Night: Infant"
Knew the silent gates and walls - Charles Weekes "Dreams"
A heart sewn silent - Judy Patterson Wenzel "Shape Shift"
Sit and watch the silent rain - Helen Hay Whitney "To the Beloved"
In silent attitudes of attention - William Carlos Williams "The Old Men"
The moon upon her silent spindle - Humbert Wolfe "The Unknown God: II. Paul"
Intensified in the silent distance between - Elizabeth Woody "Meetings"
Wish to be silent in this air - C. Dale Young "Praise"
Adding silent spices and hot sauce - Kevin Young "The Dry Spell"
Spinning through my silent heart - Zheng Min "The Beauty of Life: Suffering*Struggle*Endurance" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf
Wear away with silent beat - Zitkála-Šá "Iris of Life"
Silence.
Century-silent, shadowy mazes - Edward Dowden "To Hester"
To the shores of silent-dark and back - Deborah Landau "Flesh"
Visions leave us silent-hearted - Lennox Amott "Bright Scenes Must All Depart"
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