| C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. | | | | Calm |
| | | The holy calm that leads to heavenly musing. Rogers. | 1 |
| | The tempest is oer-blown, the skies are clear, |
| And the sea charmd into a calm so still |
| That not a wrinkle ruffles her smooth face. |
Dryden. | 2 |
| | See me, how calm I am. |
| Ay, people are generally calm at the misfortunes of others. |
Goldsmith. | 3 |
| | How calmhow beautiful comes on |
| The stilly hour, when storms have gone, |
| When warring winds have died away |
| And clouds, beneath the dancing ray |
| Melt off and leave the land and sea, |
| Sleeping in bright tranquillity. |
Moore. | 4 |
| | Tis noona calm, unbroken sleep |
| Is on the blue waves of the deep; |
| A soft haze, like a fairy dream, |
| Is floating over wood and stream; |
| And many a broad magnolia flower, |
| Within its shadowy woodland bower, |
| Is gleaming like a lovely star. |
George D. Prentice. | 5 |
| | Gradual sinks the breeze, |
| Into a perfect calm; that not a breath |
| I heard to quiver thro the closing woods, |
| Or rustling turn the many twinkling leaves, |
| Of aspen tall. The uncurling floods diffusd |
| In glassy breadth, seen through delusive lapse |
| Forgetful of their course. Tis silence all, |
| And pleasing expectation. |
Thomson. | 6 | | |
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