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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Lovely
 
  Lovely as the first green in the wood.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Lovely as Venus.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Lovely as sleep.
            —Bion		  3
  Lovely as an angel’s dream.
            —Emily Brontë		  4
  Lovely as all excellence.
            —William Browne		  5
  Lucid and lovely as the morning star.
            —Michael Bruce		  6
  Lovely as Love.
            —Lord Byron		  7
  Lovely as day.
            —George Colman, the Younger		  8
  Lovely and piteous, like a frosted flower.
            —Helen G. Cone		  9
  Lovely as the morning.
            —Barry Cornwall		  10
  Lovely as fairies.
            —Firdausi		  11
  Lovely as seraphs.
            —Washington Irving		  12
  Lovely as lilies ungathered.
            —Harriet E. Hamilton King		  13
  Lovely as May.
            —John Logan		  14
  Lovely as is the maiden moon in May.
            —Walter Malone		  15
  Lovely as a bridegroom.
            —Mary Russell Mitford		  16
Lovely as an infant’s dream
On the waking mother’s breast.
            —James Montgomery		  17
  Lovely as the first beam of the sun.
            —Ossian		  18
  Lovely as adolescence.
            —Ouida		  19
  Lovely as an obelisk in a desert.
            —Thomas Nelson Page		  20
  Lovely as light.
            —Matthew Prior		  21
  Lovely as the Lord of Night.
            —Ramayana		  22
  Lovely as a queen.
            —Dante Gabriel Rossetti		  23
  Lovely as the smiling infant spring.
            —Sir Walter Scott		  24
  Lovely as a budding rose.
            —Robert Southey		  25
  Lovely as nymphs.
            —Robert Southey		  26
  Lovely as the youthful dreams of Hope.
            —Robert Southey		  27
  Lovely as a landscape in a dream.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  28
  Lovely as the violet.
            —Martin Farquhar Tupper		  29
  Lovely as a Lapland night.
            —William Wordsworth		  30
  Lovely as spring’s first rose.
            —William Wordsworth		  31
 
 
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