Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Bloom

Blooming as health.
—Anacreon

Bloomed like a bridal-chamber.
—Anonymous

Blooming as a peach.
—Anonymous

Blooming with promise like an apple in the month of May.
—Anonymous

Her bloom was like the silver flower,
That sips the silver dew.
—Vincent Bourne

Bloomed like smouldering lilies unconsumed.
—John Davidson

Blooming as a bridal maid.
—Walter Harte

Blooms like a bower in the garden of Bliss.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Blooming as roses in the vale.
—Mrs. James Hunter

Her bloom was like the springing flower,
That sips the silver dew;
The rose was budded in her cheeks,
Just opening to the view.
—David Mallet

Verses bloom like a flower.
—James Whitcomb Riley

Bloom’d in the winter of his days,
Like Glastonbury thorn.
—Sir Charles Sedley

Bloomed, as new life might in a bloodless face.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Bloomed like a rose in a garden green.
—David Vedder