Read full poem →By the one spirit I saw him kneeling low,
And in a silvery whisper heard him say:
Truly, thou know’st not, and thou need’st not know;
Dictionary Entry
Resembling silver in color, shiny white.
Origin
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Common Phrases
white silverylight silveryhair silverygray silverygrey silvery. silvery
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Poetry examples for “silvery”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Whose youth is lighted from above,
Where, through the senses’ silvery haze,
Dawns the veil’d moon of nuptial love.
Read full poem →Down each long finger felt, a differing strand
Of silvery welcome bland;
And in her breezy palm
Read full poem →Down each long finger felt, a differing strand
Of silvery welcome bland;
And in her breezy palm
Read full poem →On the dewy meadows nigh;
On the silvery, silent rivers,
On the mountains far and high
Read full poem →Sought a precipitate pathway up through heaven,
There fell a silvery-silken veil of light,
With quietude, and sultriness and slumber,
Read full poem →The while they pelt each other on tlie crown
With silvery oak-apples, and fir-cones brown —
By all the echoes that about thee ring,
Read full poem →And moonhght ; ay, to all the mazy world
Of silvery enchantment ! — who, u{>furi'd
Beneath thy drowsy wing a triple hour.
Read full poem →For 't was the mom : Apollo's upward fire
Made every eastern cloud a silvery pyre
Of brightness so unsullied, that therein
Read full poem →Rescue my castle before the hot day
Brightens to blue from its silvery gray,
CHORUS.--_Boot, saddle, to horse, and away!_