Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Graceful
Graceful as an Alpine sapling.
—Anonymous
Graceful as a bird on the wing.
—Anonymous
Graceful as a fawn.
—Anonymous
Graceful as the arch of a rainbow.
—Anonymous
Graceful as a fairy-tale.
—William Archer
Graceful as a black frigate with snow white sails.
—Honoré de Balzac
Graceful as a springborn fairy.
—Paul Hamilton Hayne
Graceful as Mars.
—Homer (Pope)
Graceful as a snake of the paradise of Asia.
—David de La Gamme
Graceful as the willow-bough o’er the streamlet weeping.
—Samuel Lover
As warm and graceful as May.
—Edward Lovibond
She is graceful as the greenly waving boughs in summer wind.
—Gerald Massey
Graceful as a Naiad.
—George Moore
Graceful as a faun.
—Samuel Rogers
Graceful as an ivy bough born to cling and lean.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti
Graceful as a bow just bent.
—John Ruskin
Graceful and free
As honeysuckles and the lilies be.
—Douglas B. W. Sladen
Graceful as a couchant goddess.
—Anthony Trollope
Graceful as the sapphirine tide.
—Joseph Turnley
Graceful as the shawl-designs
Of Delhi or Umritsir.
—John Greenleaf Whittier