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

Wan

Wan as moonlight.
—Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Wan as a sea cliff.
—Anonymous

Wan as the watery beams of the moon.
—Anonymous

Wan and mute as vapor.
—Anonymous

Wan was her lip as the lily’s petal.
—Anonymous

Wan,
Like a fat squab upon a Chinese fan.
—William Cowper

Wan as a wasted ember.
—Edgar Fawcett

Wan,
As a lily in the shade.
—Jean Ingelow

Wan
As snow at night when the moon is gone.
—Jean Ingelow

Wan as primroses gathered at midnight.
—John Keats

Wan
As shows an hour-old ghost.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti

Wan,
Like the head and the skin of a dying man.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Wan as ashes.
—Edmund Spenser

As a dead face wan and dun.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Wan as foam blown up by the sunburnt sands.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Wan as a withered flower.
—Graham R. Tomson