Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Fade
Fade as a passing breath.
—Gilbert Abbott À Beckett
Faded as the iris after rain in April’s tearful weather.
—Anonymous
Fades as the splendor fades from the sky, when the sun sinks to sleep.
—Anonymous
He faded away like a pound of soap in a hard day’s wash.
—Anonymous
Fade away like some fabled city of mythology.
—Anonymous
Fade like autumn leaves, and fade and die
With no kind hand to raise the head and gently close the dying eye.
—Anonymous
Fade … like ghosts prohibited the day.
—Anonymous
Faded like snow.
—Anonymous
Faded like the morn.
—Arabian Nights
Fades like an unfixed photograph.
—William Archer
Fade like grass.
—Matthew Arnold
Fades awa’ like morning dew.
—Scottish Ballad
Fade away like morning beauty from her mortal day.
—William Blake
As flowers kept too long in the shade … fade.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Fading like moonlight softly into darkness.
—Robert Buchanan
Beauty fades as a tree in winter.
—Robert Burton
Fade like stars before the sun.
—Thomas Campbell
Fade away like a Vesture.
—Thomas Carlyle
Faded … like the mist of a breath on a mirror.
—Joseph Conrad
Fade like morning’s blush.
—Eliza Cook
Fades like the rainbow’s brilliant arch.
—Eliza Cook
Fades
Like the fair flow’r dishevell’d in the wind.
—William Cowper
A beauty fading like the April show’rs.
—William Drummond
Fade away like a cloud and vanish.
—James Anthony Froude
Fading, like a morning dream.
—Gerald Griffin
Fades as a kiss on lips of light.
—Frank W. Gunsaulus
Fading away, like a pale English flower, in the shadow of the forest.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne
Faded like a dream of youth.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Faded … like dew upon the sea.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fade like the roseate flush, the golden glow,
When the bright curtain of the day is rolled.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fade unspoken,
Like daffodils that die with sheaths unbroken.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fades like an old faith grown gray.
—Brian Hooker
Fade away like the pale sister of the night,
When she resigns her delighted light,
Lost in the blaze of day.
—John Hughes
Faded from me like a dream.
—Victor Hugo
Fade like an August marigold.
—Jean Ingelow
Fade,
As shadows passing into deeper shade.
—Henry W. Longfellow
Faded slowly from the sight as blushes from the cheek.
—Henry W. Longfellow
Fade away like a thin vapory cloud.
—Lord Lyttelton
Faded like some rich raiment worn of old.
—Rosamund Marriott-Watson
Is all faded, like fragrance,
From the languishing late flowers.
—Owen Meredith
Fading … like a lingering star
That pales at sunrise in the waters of light.
—Lloyd Mifflin
Fades like a funeral lay.
—Thomas Moore
Fades like a once-heard tale.
—Lewis Morris
Fades like sunset flame.
—Constance C. W. Naden
Fading like a ghost
At gray cock-crow.
—John G. Neihardt
How fading are the joys we dote upon!
Like apparitions seen and gone.
—John Norris
Faded away like a woodcock leaves a weasel.
—Edward Peple
Faded like a wreath of mist at eve.
—George D. Prentice
Fade … like a nightmare’s ghastly presence, in the truthful dawn of day.
—Adelaide A. Procter
Fade as a flower in May.
—Richard Pynson
Fade like the gowans in May.
—Allan Ramsay
Fade …
Like stars half quenched in mists of silver dew.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fade like vapor.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fade, like the hopes of youth.
—Robert Southey
Fade like to a flowre that feeles no heate of sunne.
—Edmund Spenser
Faded, as fields that withering winds leave dry.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fade like flame.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fade as leaves when the woods wax hoary.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
We all do fade as a leaf.
—Old Testament
Fading as hearts forget, as shadows flee.
—Francis O. Ticknor
Fade
As placidly as when an infant dies.
—Thomas Ward
Fade, like waves breaking on a dreary shore.
—John Wilson
Fades like the lustre of an evening cloud.
—William Wordsworth