Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Die
Die like a dog in a ditch.
—Anonymous
The fresh roses on your cheeks shall die,
Like flowers that wither in the shade.
—Aphra Behn
Parting day
Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues
With a new colour as it gasps away,
The last still loveliest, till—’tis gone, and all is gray.
—Lord Byron
Dies like cookery with the day that brought it forth.
—Thomas Carlyle
Die like a rat in hole.
—Ranger Gull
A remnant of beauty was dying out upon this face of sixteen, like the pale sun which is extinguished by frightful clouds at the dawn of a winter’s day.
—Victor Hugo
It died away
Like the pale sunbeam of a weeping day.
—Jacques Jasmin
All my glories die,
Like flowers transplanted to a colder sky.
—Lord Lyttelton
She died—as die the roses
On the ruddy clouds of dawn,
When the envious sun discloses
His flame, and morning’s gone.
—Evan MacColl
Dies away,
Like relics of some faded strain, loved voices, lost for many a day.
—Thomas Moore
Die as April’s cowslips die.
—John Payne
Dies away like a peal of cathedral bells.
—Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Dies as dreams that die with the sleep they feed.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
As a star feels the sun and falters,
Touched to death by diviner eyes—
As on the old gods’ untended altars
The old fire of withered worship dies.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Die as a leaf that dies in a day.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Died like odor rapt in the winged wind,
Borne into the alien lands and far away.
—Alfred Tennyson
Died away like a sigh in the shadow of the infinite vault.
—Giovanni Verga