Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Fragile
Fragile as a lily.
—Anonymous
Fragile as rainbows.
—Anonymous
Fragile as a shade.
—Honoré de Balzac
Fragile as a dream.
—Walter Malone
Fragile as a leaf.
—Donald G. Mitchell
As fragile as a strand of rain.
—James Whitcomb Riley
Fragile as some dream which Hope with hollow hand hath guided.
—Mary A. Townsend