Silken, chaste, and hushed. [ Keats ]

True love's the gift which God has given
To man alone beneath the heaven;
It is not fantasy's hot fire,
Whose wishes, soon as granted, fly;
It liveth not in fierce desire,
With dead desire it doth not die;
It is the secret sympathy.
The silver link, the silken tie.
Which heart to heart, and mind to mind,
In body and in soul can bind. [ Walter Scott ]

Time, as he passes us, has a dove's wing,
Untoiled, and swift, and of a silken sound. [ Cowper ]

Fetters of gold are still fetters, and silken cords pinch. [ Proverb ]

One gets easier accustomed to a silken bed than to a sack of leaves. [ Auerbach ]

How many threadbare souls are to be found under silken cloaks and gowns! [ Thomas Brooks ]

Moderation is the silken string running through the pearl chain of all virtues. [ Bishop Hall ]

Oh, never will I trust to speeches penned! * * * taffeta phrases, silken terms precise, three-piled hyperboles. [ William Shakespeare ]

There is nothing holier in this life of ours than the first consciousness of love, the first fluttering of its silken wings. [ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ]