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

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	1
Genuine grief is like penitence, not clamorous, but subdued. —Josh Billings	2
Grief and passion are like floods raised in little brooks by a sudden rain. —John Dryden	3
Grief, like wine, the tongue will render free. —James Matthew Legaré	4
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	5
Grief Was as a last year’s leaf Blown dead far down the wind’s way. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	6