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

Mourn

Mourned like a turtle.
—Anonymous

She mourns, like the sweet wind grieving in
The pines on an autumn night.
—Barry Cornwall

Mournful and low, like the song of the tomb.
—Ossian

Mourn like a turtle-dove but late robb’d of his mate.
—George Sandys

Mourn like a sick child.
—Alexander Smith

Mourn like a boy beaten.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Mourn as a dove.
—Old Testament

Mourn’d
Like a living thing distressed.
—John Greenleaf Whittier