Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Decay

Decay like the rainbow’s hue.
—Anonymous

We decay like grass of the hill; our strength returns no more.
—James Macpherson

All decay, like the glories of the Spring.
—Dinah Maria Mulock

As soon decay’d and done
As is the morning’s silver-melting dew.
—William Shakespeare

Decay
Like corpses in a charnel.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley