Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Waste
Wasted like the mountain snowe, before warme Phœbus’ shine.
—English Ballad
Wasted, like a sermon for the dead.
—Ambrose Bierce
Wasted like well-streams.
—Robert Browning
Waste … like April snow in the warm noon.
—William Cullen Bryant
Waste as fast as dyke water.
—William Carr (Dialect of Craven)
As the drained fountain, filled with autumn leaves,
The field swept naked of its garnered sheaves;
So wastes at noon the promise of our dawn,
The springs all choking, and the harvest gone.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Waste like a wilderness.
—Henry W. Longfellow
Wasted, as the snow congealed
When the bright sunne his beams thereon doth beat.
—Edmund Spenser
Wasted
Like an ember among the fallen embers.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Waste like death.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne