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

Lovely

Lovely as the first green in the wood.
—Anonymous

Lovely as Venus.
—Anonymous

Lovely as sleep.
—Bion

Lovely as an angel’s dream.
—Emily Brontë

Lovely as all excellence.
—William Browne

Lucid and lovely as the morning star.
—Michael Bruce

Lovely as Love.
—Lord Byron

Lovely as day.
—George Colman, the Younger

Lovely and piteous, like a frosted flower.
—Helen G. Cone

Lovely as the morning.
—Barry Cornwall

Lovely as fairies.
—Firdawsī

Lovely as seraphs.
—Washington Irving

Lovely as lilies ungathered.
—Harriet E. Hamilton King

Lovely as May.
—John Logan

Lovely as is the maiden moon in May.
—Walter Malone

Lovely as a bridegroom.
—Mary Russell Mitford

Lovely as an infant’s dream
On the waking mother’s breast.
—James Montgomery

Lovely as the first beam of the sun.
—Ossian

Lovely as adolescence.
—Ouida

Lovely as an obelisk in a desert.
—Thomas Nelson Page

Lovely as light.
—Matthew Prior

Lovely as the Lord of Night.
—Ramayana

Lovely as a queen.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Lovely as the smiling infant spring.
—Sir Walter Scott

Lovely as a budding rose.
—Robert Southey

Lovely as nymphs.
—Robert Southey

Lovely as the youthful dreams of Hope.
—Robert Southey

Lovely as a landscape in a dream.
—Alfred Tennyson

Lovely as the violet.
—Martin Farquhar Tupper

Lovely as a Lapland night.
—William Wordsworth

Lovely as spring’s first rose.
—William Wordsworth