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

Grief

Woman’s grief is like a summer storm, short as it is violent.
—Joanna Baillie

Genuine grief is like penitence, not clamorous, but subdued.
—Josh Billings

Grief and passion are like floods raised in little brooks by a sudden rain.
—John Dryden

Grief, like wine, the tongue will render free.
—James Matthew Legaré

Grief, like night, is salutary. It cools down the soul by the putting out its fevered fires; and if it oppresses her, it also compresses her energies. The load once gone, she will go forth with greater buoyancy to new pleasures.
—John Pulsford

Grief
Was as a last year’s leaf
Blown dead far down the wind’s way.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne