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The 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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