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

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

Hope


Our hopes, like towering falcons, aim at objects in an airy height: The little pleasure of the game is afar off to view the flight. —Anonymous	1
It is equally precarious to moor a ship by an insufficient anchor, and to ground hope on a capricious temper. —Demophilus	2
A woman’s hopes are woven as sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them. —George Eliot	3
Hope, like the glimmering taper’s light Adorns and cheers the way; And still, as darker grows the night, Emits a brighter ray. —Oliver Goldsmith	4
Our hopes, like withered leaves, fall fast. —Henry W. Longfellow	5
As froth on the face of the deep, As foam on the crest of the sea, As dreams at the waking of sleep, As gourd of a day and a night, As harvest that no man shall reap, As vintage that never shall be, Is hope if it cling not aright, O my God unto Thee. —Christina Georgina Rossetti	6
Hope is like a harebell trembling from its birth. —Christina Georgina Rossetti	7
Who builds his hope in air of your fair looks, Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast; Ready, with every nod, to tumble down Into the fatal bowels of the deep. —William Shakespeare	8
Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey towards it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us. —Samuel Smiles	9
Hope has left you like a painted dream. —Joseph Stansbury	10
As some adventurous flower, on savage craig-side grown, Seems nourished hour by hour from its wild self alone, So lives inveterate Hope, on her own hardihood. —William Watson	11