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

Wail (Noun)

A lonely wail, like a lost child’s cry.
—Anonymous

A wail, as of a babe new-born.
—George Meredith

Continuous wail, like the moaning of a winter wind.
—Ouida

Wail like echoes from the sea.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti

A wail
Of impotent despair,
Like the sound that frightened marshes hear
From some leper in his lair.
—Oscar Wilde