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

Tear

Tears of joy, like summer raindrops, are pierced by sunbeams.
—Hosea Ballou

Pearly tears, like rose’s dew, wept she.
—Emanual Von Geibel

Sheds ceaseless tears, like dew on Hermon’s hill.
—Judah HaLevi

Tearful and trembling as a dewy rose
The wind has shaken till it fills the air
With light and fragrance.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Tears like pears.
—Victor Hugo

Tears herald smiles, as weeping April does this sunny May.
—James M. Morton

From his eyes a stream of tears descended like a broken necklace of pearls.
—Asian

Shining through tears, like April-suns in showers, that labor to o’ercome the cloud that loads them.
—Thomas Otway

Tears as big as ostrich’s eggs.
—François Rabelais

Then fresh tears
Stood on her cheeks, as doth the honey-dew
Upon a gather’d lily almost wither’d.
—William Shakespeare

Tears … shone as the dew on a lily, at the rising of the sun.
—Hersart de la Villemarqué

Her tears, like drops of molten lead,
With torrents burn the passage to my heart.
—Edward Young