Potential Titles: Still

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This word will be erratically indexed as I'm trying to keep the versions that mean 'motionless' or 'a thing for distilling alcohol' while avoiding the version that means 'ongoing.' There are cases where I could take it either way, and I'm not likely to be consistent in my criteria for deciding.

Chilled our laughter, stilled our play - Conrad Aiken "The Vampire"

Stilling the breathless air - Lauren K. Alleyne "How could I have known I would need to remember your laughter,"

Still and softly sleeping - Alun "Song of the Fisherman's Wife" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Sleeping now in a still and holy ark - Reginald Augustine "Dreams" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.13 no 372, May 30 1829]

So still at the moment of liberty - Julie Babcock "Capture and Release"

To be so still - Rita Banerjee "Sleep"

Still as a spirit's breath - Margaret Fairless Barber "All Souls' Day in a German Town"

Have stilled these clamouring demons - Charles Baudelaire "La Beatrice" transl. not credited

Come into the presence of still water - Wendell Berry "The Peace of Wild Things"

Pungent in the still images sacrificed to history - Kimberly Blaeser "Unlawful Assembly"

Still on the high roofs of the mind - Max Bodenheim "Regarding an American Village"

My still heart will sing a little while - Arna Bontemps "My Heart Has Known Its Winter"

And poplars stand there still as death - Arna Bontemps "Southern Mansion"

That doesn't move for fear of standing still - Russell Brakefield "Distances Between the Head and Chest"

Lie still upon his heart--which breaks below thee - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "A Dead Rose"

A still renewable fear - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "Sonnet XXXVI in Sonnets from the Portuguese"

Waving passports in the still air - Regie Cabico "Mango Poem"

Who can make the earth stand still - Dorothy Chan "Triple Sonnet for my Aggressive Forehead"

Over still waters mildly come - Arthur Hugh Clough "Dipsychus"

Out of the strange still dusk - Adelaide Crapsey "The Warning"

The flute of morning stilled in noon - E. E. Cummings "Songs (III)"

The old enchantments hold me still - Olive Custance "The Changeling"

Sunlight on the fur of a rabbit stilled - Dante Di Stefano "Green Burial Unsonnet"

The bergamot's red blossom leans the stilly stream across - Ignatius L. Donnelly "The Forest Fountain" [Graham's Magazine v.XL no.4, April 1852]

Darkling beneath still olive boughs - Edward Dowden "The Fountain"

So pitilessly still of curve - Max Eastman "A Dune Sonnet"

Since her heart was still and hard - Annie Finch "Strangers"

Only what is still has memory - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Lost Coast"

Stills his eyes and sees with skin - Robert Frazier "A Feel for the Heavens"

And those stars so gravely still - John Freeman "More Than Sweet"

And rooks were still in rigid boughs - John Freeman "Stone Trees"

Grew still with silent worship - S. Virginia French "The 'Still Small Voice'"

Still the tiger's famished growl - John Gay "The Council of Horses"

From the still retreat of virtue - Hafiz "The Divan "XVIII" (translated by H. Bicknell)

My heart lay still in the hand of pain - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "On Ne Badine Pas Avec La Mort"

The still waters of the silver sea - C.R.S. Harris "Sonnet"

That still and speechless hour - Felicia Hemans "Stanzas on the Death of the Princess Charlotte"

Until all of existence stood still - Cheng Him "Declaration"

Stilled is the muttered thunder - Richard Hughes "The Sermon (Wales, 1920)"

A woodwind inside the empire of still people - fahima ife "means of evasion"

Stars fizzle in the map of still time - John James "Poem Around Which Everything Is Structured"

Wait in the still eternity - Georgia Douglas Johnson "Black Woman"

Still inside locomotion and flagellation - Janet Kauffman "Oh, Corporeal"

Soft embalmer of the still midnight - John Keats "To Sleep"

Strange music startle the still air - Fanny Kemble "An Invitation"

Through the still sapphire skies - Fanny Kemble "Song [When you mournfully rivet your tear-laden eyes]"

Obscure and still and white - Joyce Kilmer "The White Ships and the Red"

Still in their elsewhere - Galway Kinnell "The Waking"

Made treaty with Time to stand still - Rudyard Kipling "[Late Came the God]"

When all the noon hangs still - Archibald Lampman "At the Ferry"

Still upon the utmost rim - Archibald Lampman "Chione"

Night still in their throats - Dorianne Laux "I Never Wanted to Die"

Through still, soft air that cry is yet prolonged - Emma Lazarus "Fog"

And still time's horses gallop - Richard Le Gallienne "Time Flies"

Still for a wingbeat second - Joseph O. Legaspi "My Mother's Suitors"

Still as a wish - Megan Levad "Foundling"

An egret descends on still wings - Lin Ling "Footpaths Cross in the Rice Field" transl. by Kenneth Rexroth and Ling Chung

And stilled the panther's call - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, I: My Fathers Came from Kentucky"

The Dancing Stars grow still - Lily A. Long "The Singing Place"

My heart will soon be still - John Masefield "A Song at Parting"

Where the road is lonely, dark, and still - F. Schuyler Mathews "The Hermit Thrush"

Malice stilled the music of the spheres - H.P. McKnight "An Initial Acrostic"

Dawn will find them still again - Edna St Vincent Millay "Sorrow"

My thought ran still - Edna St Vincent Millay "The Suicide"

Standing still in the glitter of ancient glass - N. Scott Momaday "Jornada del Muerto"

Stilling the fire that does not cease - Sahar Muradi "All I can see is nothing"

But the heart lies still - Vi Khi Nao "How Can Something So Unmoving Move Everything Around It"

Choose the still universe of dust - Pablo Neruda "The Unburied Woman of Paita" transl. by Maria Jacketti

On the still garden of my heart - E. Nesbit "Song"

The waterfalls were still as flames - Frank O'Hara "Augustus"

Be still, my soul, and steadfast - Mary Oliver "The Gift"

the egret so completely still - Jacqueline Osherow "Window Seat: Providence to New York City"

As still as a startled quail - "The Pearl" transl. by Sophie Jewett

The bloodhound's hellish baying stills the hunted bondman's cries - George B. Peck "The Vision: Inscribed to Teachers to Contrabands in the South" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.6, Dec. 1864]

More still than a flooded meadow - Carl Phillips "As If Lit from Beneath, and Tossing"

Gone still in the heart - Camille Rankine "Ways to Disappear"

White and still as a pillar of salt - Lola Ridge "Back Yards"

Hold the breath still and heart pale - Lola Ridge "Death Ray"

A bitter wine out of the bloody stills of the world - Lola Ridge "The Ghetto"

All distress is stilled - James Whitcombe Riley "To Edgar Wilson"

Like stars poised high and still - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)

Desire in still perfect hours - Rainer Maria Rilke "Completed Fragments of Rilke" (translated by A.M. Juster)

A few still minutes between heaven and earth - Edwin Arlington Robinson "John Brown"

A sweet still night of the vintage time - Rennell Rodd "Where the Rhone Goes Down to the Sea"

That knew no still awaking - Alice Wellington Rollins "Among Those Joys for Which We Utter Praise"

The world is still for three heartbeats - Hester J. Rook "The Sparrows in Her Hair"

Caught still as Absalom - Isaac Rosenberg "Chagrin"

Still as any startled tortoise - Captain Owen Rutter "The Song of Tiadatha"

Never stand still on the path - Sanai "The Walled Garden of Truth" [selections] transl. by D. Pendleton

When cold has stilled the wind - Duncan Campbell Scott "Frost"

When the year stood still at June - Francis Sherman "A Canadian Calendar: X. Fellowship"

Still water as their mirror - Crystal Sidell "The Truth About Doppelgangers"

Of some black lily, still and venomous - George Sterling "The House of Orchids"

Lost in a still, enchanted land - George Sterling "White Magic"

Onyx waters stilled by gorgeous oils - George Sterling "A Wine of Wizardry"

Stilled for the passing of her dreaming feet - Wallace Stevens "Sunday Morning"

Still and glad of silence - Algernon Swinburne "A Landscape by Courbet"

For your spirit's still delight - Sara Teasdale "Barter"

Too still and sure for prayer - Sara Teasdale "Since There Is No Escape"

Exercised in the still night - Dylan Thomas "In my craft or sullen art"

Been stilled in storm - Edwin Torres "A Season of Beens"

Troubling the still soft swarms of fallen stars - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"

Dug from still quarries of grey-black air - W.J. Turner "A Ritual Dance"

So still against a sky of daffodil - Katharine Tynan "Farewell"

And still itself unknowing - Paul Valery "Palme" as translated by May Sarton in 1954

A warm still wind upon my face - Mark Van Doren "Possession"

The still ecstasy of the firefly - John Hall Wheelock "The Divine Fantasy"

Still until the night - Margaret Widdemer "The Factories"

Too still and heavy stays - Margaret Widdemer "Old Wine"

Of bounding pulses that stand still and ache - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "Love's Language"

The wind coming that stills birds - William Carlos Williams "The Wanderer"

The still, sad music of humanity - William Wordsworth "On Revisiting the Banks of the Wye"

Master of the still stars and of the flaming door - W.B. Yeats "The Valley of the Black Pig"

Still as gravestones and as hard - Jane Yolen "Baba Yaga Has Tea with Kostchai the Deathless"

Silence stills me - Javier Zamora "Pump Water from the Well"

Pressed against the still silver sky - Cynthia Zarin "Three Poems: Letter in Fog"


When the cider-stills run amber - Clinton Scollard "Now's the Time o' Year"

The porch dust-still, vine-wreathed - Walter de la Mare "The Unfinished Dream"

All flower-still she moved - Zona Gale "When Did Spring Die?"

Among the noon-stilled linden-trees - James Russell Lowell "Endymion"


Roots tangled around stillborn engines - Fiona Lu "Turing Test"


And basks in the warmth of these still-fragile stars - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"


Still Life.


Within the still-point of the song - Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez "The Eye of the Flute"


Some still-retreating goal - Edith Wharton "The Mortal Lease. II"


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