Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Lonely
Lonely as a deserted ship.
—Anonymous
Lonely as a ghost.
—Anonymous
Lonely as a trance.
—Hartley Coleridge
Lonely as a crow in a strange country.
—Joseph Conrad
There is nothing so lonely in the world as the girl who has got to look after herself.
—Joseph Conrad
As lonely as the sun.
—Sir Francis H. Doyle
Lonely as the Arctic Sea.
—Hamlin Garland
Lonely in her gloom as a pale Angel of the Grove.
—Thomas Moore
Lonely as the home of kings
When the slow hours on leaden wings
Oppress the friendless great.
—Lewis Morris
Lonely, as sovereigns are.
—Ouida
Lonely as a catamount.
—Sam Slick
Lonely as in a garden-close
Slumbers the solitary rose.
—Arthur Symons
Lonely … as a crow on the sands.
—William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills.
—William Wordsworth