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

Glorious

Glorious as a victory for the victor.
—Anonymous

Glorious as when Pericles ruled over Athens.
—Anonymous

Glorious as the sun.
—Beaumont and Fletcher

Glorious … as spreads before us the sky’s unspeakable blue.
—Mary Geoghegan

Glorious as the morning star of heaven.
—Robert Greene

As glorious as the portal of the sun.
—Robert Greene

Glorious as a heavenly promise.
—G. T. Hill

Glorious as the rainbow’s birth.
—Gerald Massey

Glorious as the Spring.
—Philip Massinger

Glorious as a midnight star.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti

Glorious as purple twilight.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti

Thou art
As glorious to this night, being o’er my head,
As is a winged messenger of heaven
Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes
Of mortals.
—William Shakespeare

Sweet and glorious as compassion.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Glorious as the sea.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Rose glorious as with gleam of gold unpriced.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Glorious as if a glimpse were given
Within the western gates of heaven.
—Celia Thaxter

Glorious as unclouded May.
—John Tobin

Glorious as the new-built town.
—Edmund Waller

Glorious, like the seer-seen angel
Standing in the sun.
—John Greenleaf Whittier