Potential Titles: Calm
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somethingdarkerFriendship, which love's loud emotions becalms - Calder Campbell "Under the Palms" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal no.455, 18 Sept. 1852]
That long becalmed at anchor lay - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Becalmed on an infinite horizon - John Gould Fletcher "Sand and Spray: A Sea-Symphony"
Lie becalmed in sight of strand - Christina Rossetti "Autumn"
Calmly I rise with broken threads - Harold Acton "Conversations and Crumbling"
Calm and bright with tropic sunshine - John Lynch Adair "Joy Returneth with the Morning"
Amid the calm and liberal air - Benjamin West Ball "Autumn"
Promethean will uncrushed and calm - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"
That his step broke calm - Gwendolyn Bennett "Wind"
Calmly wait the hour of his decay - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
On a calm and gentle tide - J.G. Brooks "To the 'Blue-eyed Lassie'"
Calm world of zeroes invisible - Anthony Butts "Thin Places"
At the end of a corrupting calm - Witter Bynner "The New World VIII"
Darker woe come o'er calm self-enjoying thought - Robert Chambers "My Native Bay" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
From the calm shadow of my tent - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
Human folly delivered by calm - Johnson Cheu "Wail"
In the calm or tempest's teeth - James H. Cousins "The Railway Arch"
In the circuit calm of one vast coil - Hart Crane "At Melville's Tomb"
A little world of calm for luck and longing to revise - Armen Davoudian "Hot Springs"
The secrets of my calming beauty - Kwame Dawes "How I Pray in the Plague"
Soft calm that levels hopes and fears - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"
All loath that calms should bind him - Delta "Disenchantment" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIX, Nov. 1849, v.LXVI]
In the garden of her calm - Eric Dickinson "The Garden"
Calm'd by the wizard Seven - Edward Dowden "The Corn-Crake"
A calm retreat of tempered light - Edward Dowden "In the Garden"
Calm summer from a hundred fields - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"
Under the calm ascension of the night - John Drinkwater "Of Greatham"
Dream in calm delight - Paul Laurence Dunbar "By the Stream"
In the calm and proud procession of eternal things - A.E. "Babylon"
The mystery underneath the calm - Katherine Edgren "Muskies and Reveries: Reverie on the Invisible Twitch"
When grief was calm - The Ettrick Shepherd "Kilmeny"
Stealing across the calm and moonlit seas - J.F. "The Better Thought" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.460, 23 Oct. 1852]
I spin in her cool, calming storm - Annie Finch "Moon from the Porch"
To inhabit this calm, no tangles of dust - Han Shan aka Cold Mountain "282 [Amid ten thousand streams up among]" transl. by David Hinton
Beyond the tangent calm - Robert Hayden "On Lookout Mountain"
Hollow calm and fruitless strife - Paul Hamilton Hayne "Shadows All" [Lippincott's Magazine, Sept. 1885]
Deviate from her calm career - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
Father of worlds and lord of storms and calms - Charles L. Hildreth "Mithra" [Lippincott's Magazine, Nov. 1885]
For its calm bravery and ordinary good conscience - Edward Hirsch "Wild Gratitude"
Calm and peaceful sleeps the tide - Robert Hogg "A Wish Burst"
An enormous golden lion calm and sleeping - Bill Holm "Wedding Poem For Schele and Phil"
You two so calm and cold together - Frank Horne "More Letters Found Near a Suicide"
The calmest sunshine of the heart - "Hours of Childhood"
A Sabbath-calm possessed her - Laurence Housman "Annus Mirabilis (1902)"
Into the great calm where lions go to drink - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited
Dark blue and calm as music dying out - Aldous Huxley "The Ideal Found Wanting"
Blossom in the zone of calms - Jean Ingelow "Songs on the Voices of Birds: Sand Martins"
Fair calm and sacred rage - Lionel Johnson "The Age of a Dream"
Whom Virgil calms - Lionel Johnson "The Classics"
Usurp the calm noon - Lionel Johnson "Sancta Silvarum"
Kitchen smoke and calm night air - Ashley M. Jones "Harriette Winslow and Aunt Rachel Clean Collard Greens on Prime Time Television"
The calm took two weeks to notice - Janet Kauffman "Abandoned"
A surge of cascading emotions, then calm - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Entranced by calm of midnight hours - Elsa Kazi "Return to Khairpur"
The morning calm that follows the midnight stress - Rudyard Kipling "The Press"
In a ghost schooner's nocturnal calm - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"
Not to pretend anymore that the terrible calm was Paradise - Danusha Laméris "Eve, After"
From wounds and balms, from storms and calms - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]
To calm his troubled dreams - Ida Lee "Bill, the Groom"
Calm us then under a gold sky - Philip Levine "Breath"
Calmed by our watermelon sun - Ada Limon "Territory"
A hacksaw through the evening's calm core - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "jackdaw"
Accorded a time of calm, repose and quarantine - Harry Martinson "Aniara 1" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Of calm love and soulful snows - Claude McKay "To Winter"
Bursting one upon another through the horror of the calm - Herman Melville "Apathy and Enthusiasm"
Our season's debts pay calmly - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"
A lark chirps calmly on the river bank - Bianca Rae Messinger "After the Living Dead Girl"
Awaiting a stillness to calm the mind - Claire Millikin "Union Station, Washington, D.C."
Hushed and calm the breezes lie - Augusta Davies Ogden "Timon Cruz"
the brush strokes' elliptic fusion of calm and motion - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"
Wrath of prophets, and the fleeting calm - Kostes Palamas "Our Home" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
With calm upon my countenance and storm in mind - Kostes Palamas "The Return" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
The calm life of tame things - Kostes Palamas "The Sinner" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Through calm and tumult - "The Parting of Goll from His Wife"
Let me calmly wait the summons - Samuel D. Patterson "The Prayer of the Dying Girl" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
That cannot calm the past - Carl Phillips "Morning in the Bowl of Night"
Calm rituals of exile - Robert Pinsky "Banknote"
An empty pool of calmness and of cold - Jonathan Price "My Infatuation with Chaos"
When the earth is calmly breathing - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Retrospection"
Stirring to life all my calmer deeps - Dorothy Una Ratcliffe "Wander-Thirst"
Their wild calm constructs - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"
The glassy blue of a perpetually remoulded calm - Adrienne Rich "Travail et Joie"
Brooding with calm - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Place of His Rest"
The calm of men forbidden to forget - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Nimmo"
Through vasts of calm - Clinton Scollard "Wild Geese"
And rend the calm with strides of Time - P. Seshadri "Thoughts"
Quaff the calm Lethean wave - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"
Her fount of calm delights - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"
Morning's majestic calm unfolds - T'ao Chien "Turning Seasons" transl. by David Hinton
To calm my heart's distress - T'ao Ch'ien [untitled] (translated by Arthur Waley)
Pace the calm cold terraces of age - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta III: The Peace to Be"
Grown calm and very coldly wise - Sara Teasdale "Wisdom"
Lord of the calm and tempest - Richard Chenevix Trench "At Sea"
Tall trees calming bottomless wind - Tu Fu "Facing Night" transl. by David Hinton
Calm in an accomplished fate - Edward A. Uffington Valentine "If Like a Rose"
The stars move calm within the brow of night - Virginia Vaughan "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
Through the storm and through the calm - "Where Are the Swallows?" [A Tale of Two Monkeys, Project Gutenberg]
Through calm unmeasured miles - Helen Hay Whitney "Evening at Washington"
Slow rounding into calm - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"
The usual calm disaster of getting out of bed - Dean Young "Human Lot" [Poetry Oct. 2009]
Across calm indices of sands - Jordan Zandi "Last Beach Motel"
With your calm ancient terror - Matthew Zapruder "There Is a Light"
Dream toward a little calm - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
Bitter quiet about a calm-bound ship - Kostes Palamas "The Dead" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
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That long becalmed at anchor lay - Euripedes "Hecuba" transl. by Michael Wodhull
Becalmed on an infinite horizon - John Gould Fletcher "Sand and Spray: A Sea-Symphony"
Lie becalmed in sight of strand - Christina Rossetti "Autumn"
Calmly I rise with broken threads - Harold Acton "Conversations and Crumbling"
Calm and bright with tropic sunshine - John Lynch Adair "Joy Returneth with the Morning"
Amid the calm and liberal air - Benjamin West Ball "Autumn"
Promethean will uncrushed and calm - Benjamin West Ball "Booth's Richard"
That his step broke calm - Gwendolyn Bennett "Wind"
Calmly wait the hour of his decay - Robert Bloomfield "May-Day With the Muses: The Invitation"
On a calm and gentle tide - J.G. Brooks "To the 'Blue-eyed Lassie'"
Calm world of zeroes invisible - Anthony Butts "Thin Places"
At the end of a corrupting calm - Witter Bynner "The New World VIII"
Darker woe come o'er calm self-enjoying thought - Robert Chambers "My Native Bay" [Spirit of Chambers' Journal, 1834, Project Gutenberg]
From the calm shadow of my tent - Thomas S. Chard "Across the Sea"
Human folly delivered by calm - Johnson Cheu "Wail"
In the calm or tempest's teeth - James H. Cousins "The Railway Arch"
In the circuit calm of one vast coil - Hart Crane "At Melville's Tomb"
A little world of calm for luck and longing to revise - Armen Davoudian "Hot Springs"
The secrets of my calming beauty - Kwame Dawes "How I Pray in the Plague"
Soft calm that levels hopes and fears - Geoffrey Dearmer "Gommecourt"
All loath that calms should bind him - Delta "Disenchantment" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCCIX, Nov. 1849, v.LXVI]
In the garden of her calm - Eric Dickinson "The Garden"
Calm'd by the wizard Seven - Edward Dowden "The Corn-Crake"
A calm retreat of tempered light - Edward Dowden "In the Garden"
Calm summer from a hundred fields - Edward Dowden "On the Heights"
Under the calm ascension of the night - John Drinkwater "Of Greatham"
Dream in calm delight - Paul Laurence Dunbar "By the Stream"
In the calm and proud procession of eternal things - A.E. "Babylon"
The mystery underneath the calm - Katherine Edgren "Muskies and Reveries: Reverie on the Invisible Twitch"
When grief was calm - The Ettrick Shepherd "Kilmeny"
Stealing across the calm and moonlit seas - J.F. "The Better Thought" [Chambers' Edinburgh Journal, no.460, 23 Oct. 1852]
I spin in her cool, calming storm - Annie Finch "Moon from the Porch"
To inhabit this calm, no tangles of dust - Han Shan aka Cold Mountain "282 [Amid ten thousand streams up among]" transl. by David Hinton
Beyond the tangent calm - Robert Hayden "On Lookout Mountain"
Hollow calm and fruitless strife - Paul Hamilton Hayne "Shadows All" [Lippincott's Magazine, Sept. 1885]
Deviate from her calm career - Felicia Hemans "The Abencerrage Canto I"
Father of worlds and lord of storms and calms - Charles L. Hildreth "Mithra" [Lippincott's Magazine, Nov. 1885]
For its calm bravery and ordinary good conscience - Edward Hirsch "Wild Gratitude"
Calm and peaceful sleeps the tide - Robert Hogg "A Wish Burst"
An enormous golden lion calm and sleeping - Bill Holm "Wedding Poem For Schele and Phil"
You two so calm and cold together - Frank Horne "More Letters Found Near a Suicide"
The calmest sunshine of the heart - "Hours of Childhood"
A Sabbath-calm possessed her - Laurence Housman "Annus Mirabilis (1902)"
Into the great calm where lions go to drink - Victor Hugo "Boaz Asleep" transl. not credited
Dark blue and calm as music dying out - Aldous Huxley "The Ideal Found Wanting"
Blossom in the zone of calms - Jean Ingelow "Songs on the Voices of Birds: Sand Martins"
Fair calm and sacred rage - Lionel Johnson "The Age of a Dream"
Whom Virgil calms - Lionel Johnson "The Classics"
Usurp the calm noon - Lionel Johnson "Sancta Silvarum"
Kitchen smoke and calm night air - Ashley M. Jones "Harriette Winslow and Aunt Rachel Clean Collard Greens on Prime Time Television"
The calm took two weeks to notice - Janet Kauffman "Abandoned"
A surge of cascading emotions, then calm - Janet Kauffman "Undercurrent"
Entranced by calm of midnight hours - Elsa Kazi "Return to Khairpur"
The morning calm that follows the midnight stress - Rudyard Kipling "The Press"
In a ghost schooner's nocturnal calm - Yusef Komunyakaa "The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott's Collected Poems"
Not to pretend anymore that the terrible calm was Paradise - Danusha Laméris "Eve, After"
From wounds and balms, from storms and calms - Sidney Lanier "Corn" [Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, v.15, no.86, Feb. 1875]
To calm his troubled dreams - Ida Lee "Bill, the Groom"
Calm us then under a gold sky - Philip Levine "Breath"
Calmed by our watermelon sun - Ada Limon "Territory"
A hacksaw through the evening's calm core - Robert MacFarlane and Jackie Morris "jackdaw"
Accorded a time of calm, repose and quarantine - Harry Martinson "Aniara 1" transl. by Stephen Klass and Leif Sjöberg
Of calm love and soulful snows - Claude McKay "To Winter"
Bursting one upon another through the horror of the calm - Herman Melville "Apathy and Enthusiasm"
Our season's debts pay calmly - George Meredith "Lines to a Friend Visiting America"
A lark chirps calmly on the river bank - Bianca Rae Messinger "After the Living Dead Girl"
Awaiting a stillness to calm the mind - Claire Millikin "Union Station, Washington, D.C."
Hushed and calm the breezes lie - Augusta Davies Ogden "Timon Cruz"
the brush strokes' elliptic fusion of calm and motion - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"
Wrath of prophets, and the fleeting calm - Kostes Palamas "Our Home" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
With calm upon my countenance and storm in mind - Kostes Palamas "The Return" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
The calm life of tame things - Kostes Palamas "The Sinner" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
Through calm and tumult - "The Parting of Goll from His Wife"
Let me calmly wait the summons - Samuel D. Patterson "The Prayer of the Dying Girl" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.3, Sept. 1848]
That cannot calm the past - Carl Phillips "Morning in the Bowl of Night"
Calm rituals of exile - Robert Pinsky "Banknote"
An empty pool of calmness and of cold - Jonathan Price "My Infatuation with Chaos"
When the earth is calmly breathing - Arthur Quiller-Couch "Retrospection"
Stirring to life all my calmer deeps - Dorothy Una Ratcliffe "Wander-Thirst"
Their wild calm constructs - Adrienne Rich "An Atlas of the Difficult World"
The glassy blue of a perpetually remoulded calm - Adrienne Rich "Travail et Joie"
Brooding with calm - Charles G.D. Roberts "The Place of His Rest"
The calm of men forbidden to forget - Edwin Arlington Robinson "Nimmo"
Through vasts of calm - Clinton Scollard "Wild Geese"
And rend the calm with strides of Time - P. Seshadri "Thoughts"
Quaff the calm Lethean wave - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Ordeal by Fire"
Her fount of calm delights - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Refuge in Nature"
Morning's majestic calm unfolds - T'ao Chien "Turning Seasons" transl. by David Hinton
To calm my heart's distress - T'ao Ch'ien [untitled] (translated by Arthur Waley)
Pace the calm cold terraces of age - Rachel Annand Taylor "The Hours of Fiammetta III: The Peace to Be"
Grown calm and very coldly wise - Sara Teasdale "Wisdom"
Lord of the calm and tempest - Richard Chenevix Trench "At Sea"
Tall trees calming bottomless wind - Tu Fu "Facing Night" transl. by David Hinton
Calm in an accomplished fate - Edward A. Uffington Valentine "If Like a Rose"
The stars move calm within the brow of night - Virginia Vaughan "Thought" [The Continental Monthly v.5 no.5, May 1864]
Through the storm and through the calm - "Where Are the Swallows?" [A Tale of Two Monkeys, Project Gutenberg]
Through calm unmeasured miles - Helen Hay Whitney "Evening at Washington"
Slow rounding into calm - John Greenleaf Whittier "Psalms"
The usual calm disaster of getting out of bed - Dean Young "Human Lot" [Poetry Oct. 2009]
Across calm indices of sands - Jordan Zandi "Last Beach Motel"
With your calm ancient terror - Matthew Zapruder "There Is a Light"
Dream toward a little calm - Matthew Zapruder "Twenty Poems for Noelle"
Bitter quiet about a calm-bound ship - Kostes Palamas "The Dead" transl. by Aristides E. Phoutrides
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