Potential Titles: Stillness
Jul. 15th, 2011 10:07 pmThe drowsy arm of stillness - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Butterfly"
Lose the taste of stillness - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Horned Toad"
Bits of life amidst the spores of stillness - Paul Cameron Brown "Devastation"
When sad Autumn sheds abroad the stillness of decay - Mrs. Jane C. Campbell "My Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
The stillness of blown glass - Victoria Chang "OBIT"
The wheel of the roaring stillness - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"
The luxury of your stillness - Rasheed Copeland "When Puffy says, and we won't stop, 'cause we can't stop"
And steep our hearts in stillness - Danske Dandridge "Silence"
Build a nest from the stillness between - Diane DeCillis "Nest"
A vigil long in the stillness - George Blackstone Field "My Sentinels"
And mournful stillness reigned around - "The Fine Old English Gentleman"
No human voices break the stillness - Laura Foley "What Stillness"
Sudden stillness fills my heart - Emanuel Geibel "[Schöne Lilie]" transl. by Edith Wharton
What the voice born of stillness might say - Ingrid Goff-Maidoff "The Listening Bridge"
Revenge like the stillness of snow - Jared Harel "January 20, 2021"
Gives off stillness to the air - Robert Hass "Heroic Simile"
Saturated with stillness - Edward Hirsch "Giacomo Leopardi"
Disturbs my fireside's stillness - Eleanor Hull "The Old Woman of Beare"
Who measures desire by stillness - Jenny Johnson "Pedal"
Broke on the stillness of the night - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"
Lifting ninety years of stillness - Joanna Klink "On Falling (Blue Spruce)"
Sit in the stillness and stare at Fate - Amy Levy "In a Minor Key"
Instruct you in stillness - J. Patrick Lewis "Walk Lightly"
Pointing at this shock of stillness - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"
No more than there is stillness in the sea - John Masefield "The Haunted"
The stillness of sleep attends them - Claire Millikin "The Mannequins"
Awaiting a stillness to calm the mind - Claire Millikin "Union Station, Washington, D.C."
allegory writing me into a fold of stillness - Tajudeen Muadh "In a Goverment Class, I Discuss My Home"
Faltered in the stillness - Pablo Neruda "Theater of the Gods" transl. by Dennis Maloney
Requires turpentine stillness - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"
Headfirst dive into stillness - Achy Obejas "Slow"
To learn the importance of stillness - Mary Oliver "Coming to God: First Days"
More like resisting stillness - Carl Phillips "What I See Is the Light Falling All Around Us"
His stillness a form of motion - D.A. Powell "The Artist's Hand"
My spirit in its dress of stillness - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
Into cramped stillness whispering, Wait - E.F. Schraeder "Procrastination (A Lullaby)"
Breathe the balm of Nature's stillness - P. Seshadri "An Evening on the Lagoon"
That joy and stillness breathed into her heart - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Rhythm of roar and stillness - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Sea Sonnet: Dakar, 2018"
Overhead in heavy stillness sail - Jones Very "The Clouded Morning"
Nothing like the stillness - Katie Willingham "The Golden Record"
Force him to contend with stillness - C. Dale Young "Curio"
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Lose the taste of stillness - Maxwell Bodenheim "Advice to a Horned Toad"
Bits of life amidst the spores of stillness - Paul Cameron Brown "Devastation"
When sad Autumn sheds abroad the stillness of decay - Mrs. Jane C. Campbell "My Bird" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]
The stillness of blown glass - Victoria Chang "OBIT"
The wheel of the roaring stillness - G.K. Chesterton "The Ballad of the White Horse: Book VII. Ethandune: The Last Charge"
The luxury of your stillness - Rasheed Copeland "When Puffy says, and we won't stop, 'cause we can't stop"
And steep our hearts in stillness - Danske Dandridge "Silence"
Build a nest from the stillness between - Diane DeCillis "Nest"
A vigil long in the stillness - George Blackstone Field "My Sentinels"
And mournful stillness reigned around - "The Fine Old English Gentleman"
No human voices break the stillness - Laura Foley "What Stillness"
Sudden stillness fills my heart - Emanuel Geibel "[Schöne Lilie]" transl. by Edith Wharton
What the voice born of stillness might say - Ingrid Goff-Maidoff "The Listening Bridge"
Revenge like the stillness of snow - Jared Harel "January 20, 2021"
Gives off stillness to the air - Robert Hass "Heroic Simile"
Saturated with stillness - Edward Hirsch "Giacomo Leopardi"
Disturbs my fireside's stillness - Eleanor Hull "The Old Woman of Beare"
Who measures desire by stillness - Jenny Johnson "Pedal"
Broke on the stillness of the night - Fanny Kemble "Epistle from the Rhine: to Y---, with a bowl of Bohemian glass"
Lifting ninety years of stillness - Joanna Klink "On Falling (Blue Spruce)"
Sit in the stillness and stare at Fate - Amy Levy "In a Minor Key"
Instruct you in stillness - J. Patrick Lewis "Walk Lightly"
Pointing at this shock of stillness - Ada Limon "Thirteen Feral Cats"
No more than there is stillness in the sea - John Masefield "The Haunted"
The stillness of sleep attends them - Claire Millikin "The Mannequins"
Awaiting a stillness to calm the mind - Claire Millikin "Union Station, Washington, D.C."
allegory writing me into a fold of stillness - Tajudeen Muadh "In a Goverment Class, I Discuss My Home"
Faltered in the stillness - Pablo Neruda "Theater of the Gods" transl. by Dennis Maloney
Requires turpentine stillness - Caroline Harper New "Ekphrasis"
Headfirst dive into stillness - Achy Obejas "Slow"
To learn the importance of stillness - Mary Oliver "Coming to God: First Days"
More like resisting stillness - Carl Phillips "What I See Is the Light Falling All Around Us"
His stillness a form of motion - D.A. Powell "The Artist's Hand"
My spirit in its dress of stillness - Rainer Maria Rilke from The Book of Hours (translated by Babette Deutsch)
Into cramped stillness whispering, Wait - E.F. Schraeder "Procrastination (A Lullaby)"
Breathe the balm of Nature's stillness - P. Seshadri "An Evening on the Lagoon"
That joy and stillness breathed into her heart - Sylvester "The Dream" [Southern Literary Messenger v.II no.1 Dec. 1835-6]
Rhythm of roar and stillness - Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon "Sea Sonnet: Dakar, 2018"
Overhead in heavy stillness sail - Jones Very "The Clouded Morning"
Nothing like the stillness - Katie Willingham "The Golden Record"
Force him to contend with stillness - C. Dale Young "Curio"
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