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The rock shone bright, the kirk no less,   That stands above the rock:   The moonlight steeped in silentness   The steady weathercock.

From Selections from Five English Poets by Litchfield, Mary E. (Mary Elizabeth)

The servant who waited saw nothing to comment upon, except, perhaps, that the unwonted presence of a guest made little difference in the usual silentness of the meal.

From A Beautiful Alien by Magruder, Julia

Her hands still clasped as if in prayer, Sweet prayer set to silentness; Her sun-browned throat uplifted, bare And beautiful.

From Songs of the Mexican Seas by Miller, Joaquin

Ador.There is a silentness That answers thee enow, That, like a brazen sound Excluding others, doth ensheathe us round,— Hear it.

From The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Vol. I by Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Upon either hand Were hills green-browed and mist-engarlanded, And all about their feet were woods bespread, Hoarding the cool and leafy silentness In many an unsunned hollow and hid recess.

From The Poems of William Watson by Watson, William