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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Calm
 
  Calm as the Judge of Truth.
            —Mark Akenside		  1
  Calm as a summer sea.
            —Louisa M. Alcott		  2
  Calm as a convent.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Calm as a cradled child in Dreamland slumber.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Calm as a June day.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Calm as a midnight sea.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Calm as a saint in Paradise.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Calm as a soft summer eve.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Calm as a virgin in her shroud.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Calm as clam shells.
            —Anonymous		  10
  Calm as the society column of a newspaper.
            —Anonymous		  11
  Calm as deep rivers.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  12
  Calm as glass.
            —Charlotte Brontë		  13
  Features are as calm as marble.
            —John Brougham		  14
Calm, as one who, safe in heaven,
Shall tell a story of his lower life,
Unmoved by shame or anger.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  15
Like the battle camp’s fearful calm,
While the banners are spread, and the warriors arm.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  16
  Calm as a babe new-born.
            —Robert Browning		  17
  Calm as beauty.
            —Robert Browning		  18
  A calm as out of just-quelled noise.
            —Robert Browning		  19
  Calm as Heaven’s serenest deeps.
            —William Allen Butler		  20
  Calm as the fields of Heaven.
            —Thomas Campbell		  21
  Calm as a field of snow.
            —Bliss Carman		  22
  Calm, unmoved as the very noon and centre of being.
            —Bliss Carman		  23
  Calm like that when storm is done.
            —Helen G. Cone		  24
  Calm as the gliding moon.
            —Samuel Taylor Coleridge		  25
  Calm as a discharged culverin.
            —William Congreve		  26
  Calm as infant-love.
            —George Crabbe		  27
  Calm as forgiven wits at the last hour.
            —Sir William Davenant		  28
  Calm as an autumn night.
            —Lord De Tabley		  29
  Calm as Clapham.
            —Charles Dickens		  30
  Calm as a mirror.
            —Alexandre Dumas, père		  31
  Calm as a virgin who has never told a lie.
            —Alexandre Dumas, père		  32
As calm as evening when caressed
By twilight breezes from the west.
            —Sam Walter Foss		  33
  Calm as a statue-saint.
            —Norman Gale		  34
  Calm as a lake in heaven.
            —Sir William Schwenk Gilbert		  35
Calm as the child who, smiling, hears
The footsteps of advancing years.
            —Mrs. Louise B. Hall		  36
  Calmly, as to a night’s repose, like flowers at set of sun.
            —Fitz-Greene Halleck		  37
  Calm as ice.
            —Nathaniel Hawthorne		  38
Calm as the patient planet’s gleam
That walks the clouded skies.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  39
  Calm as a Mandarin.
            —Richard Hovey		  40
  Calm as night.
            —Victor Hugo		  41
  Calm as the solitude between wide stars.
            —Jean Ingelow		  42
  Calm—as if she were always sitting for her portrait.
            —Henry James		  43
  Calm as brooding clouds.
            —Edward. C. Jones		  44
  Calm as a child in its soft slumber lying.
            —E. M. Kelly		  45
  Calmly, like a soul at rest.
            —Frances Anne Kemble		  46
  Calm as a vestal.
            —William Livingston		  47
  Shone calm … like the moon in the midst of the night.
            —Denis Florence McCarthy		  48
  Calm as the calm that follows duty.
            —George MacDonald		  49
  Calm as the breast of the lake when the loud wind is laid.
            —James Macpherson		  50
  Calm as a statue of Memnon in prostrate Egypt.
            —George Meredith		  51
  A calmness like the calmness of a grave.
            —Owen Meredith		  52
  Calm as some lonely shepherd’s song.
            —Thomas Moore		  53
  Calm as an angel from the blessed land.
            —Dinah Maria Mulock		  54
  Calm as a spent day of peace ideal.
            —Dinah Maria Mulock		  55
  Calm as a summer evening before the dark begins.
            —Dinah Maria Mulock		  56
  Calm as under ground.
            —Dinah Maria Mulock		  57
  Calm as the smoothest waters.
            —Daniel O’Connell		  58
  Calm as the breast of a lake when the loud wind is laid.
            —Ossian		  59
  He is as calm as calm weather is wont to be.
            —Plautus		  60
  Calm like the sleep of a soul that is blest.
            —T. Buchanan Read		  61
  Calm as Force.
            —Dante Gabriel Rossetti		  62
  Calm as … a deeply sheltered mountain lake.
            —John Ruskin		  63
  Calm, as in the days when all was right.
            —Friedrich von Schiller		  64
  Calm as the clear evening after vernal rains.
            —John Scott		  65
  Calm as virtue.
            —William Shakespeare		  66
  Calm as a cradled child in dreamless slumber bound.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  67
  Calm as a slumbering babe.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  68
  Calm as an angel in the dragon’s den.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  69
  Calm as death.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  70
  Calm, radiant, like the phantom of the dawn.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  71
  Calm like duty.
            —Robert Southey		  72
Calm as the blind who have not seen the light,
The deaf who hear no precious voice.
            —Edmund Clarence Stedman		  73
  A forehead calm as fate.
            —Edmund Clarence Stedman		  74
  Calm as a Quaker.
            —William Makepeace Thackeray		  75
  Calm as that second summer which precedes the first fall of the snow.
            —Henry Timrod		  76
  Calm as at Creation’s dawn.
            —John. C. Van Dyke		  77
  Calm as the sky after a day of storm.
            —Voltaire		  78
  Calm as Neptune on the Halcyon seas.
            —William Walsh		  79
  Calm a conscience as ever blessed an anchorite.
            —Thomas Watson		  80
  Serenely calm as summer evenings.
            —Isaac Watts		  81
  Calm as the hermit in his grot.
            —Charles Wesley		  82
  Calm as dawn.
            —Walt Whitman		  83
Calm as a child to slumber soothed,
As if an Angel’s hand had smoothed
The still, white features into rest.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  84
  Calm as earliest morn.
            —Oscar Wilde		  85
  Calm and blessed … like a rich pearl beyond the diver’s ken.
            —N. P. Willis		  86
Calm as a frozen lake when ruthless winds
Blow fiercely.
            —William Wordsworth		  87
  Calm as the dew-drops.
            —William Wordsworth		  88
  Calm as lakes that sleep.
            —William Wordsworth		  89
 
 
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