Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Meek
Meek as a Madonna.
—Anonymous
Meek as a mouse.
—Anonymous
Meek as mustard.
—Anonymous
Meek as a violet.
—Anonymous
Meek as Moses.
—Anonymous
Meek as a matron in mantle gray.
—Joanna Baillie
Meek as the turtle-dove.
—Robert Blair
Meek as the man Moses.
—William Cowper
Meeke as is a mayde.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
As meke as ever was any lamb.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
As a lamb she sitteth meke and stille, as leef on lynde [Linden tree].
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Meek as any baby.
—Maurice Hewlett
As Hester meke.
—John Lydgate
Meek as a dove.
—George Meredith
Meek as gruel.
—George Meredith
Meek as the gentlest of those who in life’s sunny valley lie sheltered and warm.
—Thomas Moore
Meek as a saint.
—Alexander Pope
Meek as May.
—Alexander Pope
More meek than lambs.
—Theocritus
Meek, like a bankrupt beggar.
—William Shakespeare
Shee meeker, kinder than
The turtle-dove or pelican.
—George Wither
Leans meekly, like a flower
By the still river tempted from its stem
And on its bosom floating.
—N. P. Willis
Meek and patient as a sheathèd sword.
—William Wordsworth