Read full poem →He toils toward the rounding beach, and stands
One moment, white and dripping, silently,
Cut like a cameo in lazuli,
Dictionary Entry
In a silent manner; making no noise.
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Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “silently”
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Read full poem →Of Spring, thy trees flush with expectancy
And cast a cloud of crimson, silently,
Above thy snowy crevices where fall
Read full poem →Silently, easily we sway through braying traffic,
Down the crowded street.
Read full poem →ing that Marcellus had yielded to pass the thing, he took the
book, and while Marcellus silently stood by and looked on,
struck it out. This done, he brought Marcellus out of the
Read full poem →The certain secret thing he had to tell:
Only our mirrored eyes met silently
In the low wave; and that sound came to be
Read full poem →The commoner obsolete forms have been silently converted: "thee"
to "you", "dost" to "does", "mought" to "might", "whenas" to
Read full poem →_“Is something the matter, dear,” she said,_
_“That you sit at your work so silently?”_
_“No, mother, no, ’twas a knot in my thread._
Read full poem →Old or antiquated spellings have been preserved.
Typographical errors have been silently corrected but other variations
in spelling and punctuation remain unaltered.
Read full poem →Drifted o'er the lady's heart
Silently as snow.
She had seen eight days depart