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

Edmund Gosse

Mary with her cheerful eyes,
Like heartsease where a dew drop lies.

Azure eyes, like stars upon the river’s brink.

The Past is like a funeral gone by. The Future comes like an unwelcome guest.

Ribanded and garlanded like a thyrsus.

Lips as rounded as a cherry.

Lips like warm carnations.

The Past is like a funeral gone by. The Future comes like an unwelcome guest.

Roused, like homeward wishes in wanderer’s heart.

Silent like a glacier bed.

Unseen, like the wind.

Arms untwined, like some twin stream
That parts at last in hastening to the sea.

Warbled like a happy bird.

Weak as an eddy in the sandy wind.

Winter, like a felon ghost, that with its viewless presence chills the blood.