By the yawning tree in the twilight The King unbound his sword, Severed the harp of all his goods, And there in the cool and soundless woods Sounded a single chord.
There is always a thing forgotten When all the world goes well; A thing forgotten, as long ago, When the gods forgot the mistletoe, And soundless as an arrow of snow The arrow of anguish fell.
Soon with a soundless step the foot of Evangeline followed.
Off she flew through the grey of the morning, soundless as a racing ghost.
And when he turned and walked with his light, soundless step down the length of the silent barroom, the wolf-dog slunk at his heels, ever and anon swinging his head over his shoulder and glancing back at the giant at the end of the room.
The soundless air seemed to have the same effect as the universal darkness when men gnawed their tongues with pain.
In place of these things was only a soundless gloom, more dreadful, more disheartening, more soul-killing than any concourse of sounds, no matter how full of fear and dread.
It was as if a part, and no small part, of my life had slipped away from me, irrecoverably, into a soundless abyss.
It was his first impulse to make off through the woods, but they were soundless and in flight, and curiosity began to get the better of fear.
But as the human intruder lay soundless and motionless, they, too, settled into quiet.
From our immemorial joys of hearth and home and love Stray'd away along the margin of the unknown tide, All its reach of soundless calm can thrill me far above Word or touch from the lips beside.
But first, a hush of peace--a soundless calm descends; The struggle of distress and fierce impatience ends.
I stir the cold breasts of antiquity, And in the soft stone of the pyramid Move wormlike; and I flutter all those sands Whereunder lost and soundless time is hid.
Closer and closer he crept, soundless in movement as a spot of light.
You work upon her yeasting brain to think That she's not safe except when you crouch near her To spy with your dropt eyes and soundless presence.
Spend the glittering moonlight there Pursuing down the soundless deep Limbs that gleam and shadowy hair, Or floating lazy, half-asleep.
Yes, sleepless nature soundless flings Invisible grapples round the soul, Drawing her through the web of things To the primal end of her journeyings, Her ultimate and constant pole.
The glisten where the peaks are hoarest, The soundless darkness of the sunken vales, The folding leagues of shadowy forest, Wave beyond wave till all distinctness fails.
No foot is on thy silent deck, Upon thy helm no hand; No ripple hath the soundless wind That smites thee from the land!
The life to be Is still the unguessed mystery Unsealed, unpierced the cloudy walls remain, We beat with dream and wish the soundless doors in vain.
All is soundless again save for the cow's moaning.
The pallid boles of the trees, the sentinels by the water with the press of verdure behind them, stand, as we pass, like soundless exclamations.
The base of the forest was submerged, the columns which supported the unseen roof, through which came little light, diminished down soundless distance into night.
The shadowy form shook hands with some one who remained unseen, and after it had taken a step or two forward the soundless door shut it out.
Having entered the obscurity of their own driveway, he broke at last into a light, soundless trot which was not slackened till he reached the relative protection of the door.
Let me play for you, upon my colour organ, my soundless symphony which I call 'Weather.
Flippant and unintellectual young men felt safe in the certainty that neither their pretty partners nor the more serious representatives of the substantial county knew one whit more about soundless symphonies than did they.
Ghost-like, too, is the soundless flutter of a bat that, by the dark archway of the old bridge, chases the insects that hover on the stream.
This very month a barn owl was seen in the twilight, flying over the moor on its soft and soundless wings.
And the only proof would be to be attacked, and the first proof of that, since needle guns are soundless and inconspicuous, would probably be a curare-loaded needle in his back.
It was soundless except for a legal built-in radio yeep that announced its firing and number to the police emergency receivers.
And now he was alone in a silent ship that rested quietly in this soundless world.
It was so still in the room Claire would have thought the boy had fallen asleep, worn out with his struggles, but for the quick, catching breaths that, like soundless sobs, escaped him every now and then.
Mrs. Slawson's shoulders, in her sudden revulsion of feeling, shook withsoundless mirth.
She stood aside, and the little vagabonds shied out past her, each one trying to hide his face, and scampering off on soundless feet as soon as he had reached the ground.
