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