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

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

Blithe


Blithe as a bird on a cherry bough. —Anonymous	1
Blithe as a grig. —Anonymous	2
Danced as blithely and briskly as a lost red maple leaf fluttering madly in a keen October breeze. —Anonymous	3
As blithe as the bird that rejoices. —A. H. Beesly	4
Blithe as a boblink. —Robert Browning	5
Blithe as our kettle’s boiling. —Robert Browning	6
Blithe as the lark that each day hails the dawn. —William Collins	7
Blithe as finches sing. —William Cowper	8
Blithe as shepherd at a wake. —William Cowper	9
Blithe as a bird new risen from the corn. —Austin Dobson	10
Blithe as the first blithe song of birds that waken. —Austin Dobson	11
Blithe as a bird in the spring. —Tom Durfey	12
Blithe as May. —R. Fletcher	13
Blithe, as if on earth Were no such thing as woe. —John Keble	14
Blithe as the orchards and birds with the new coming of spring. —James Russell Lowell	15
Blithe as a blithe bird in air. —Owen Meredith	16
As blithe and sunny as the summer days. —James Whitcomb Riley	17
Blithe as swallows, Wheeling in the summer sky at close of day. —Robert Southey	18
Blither than Spring’s when her flowerful tresses Shake forth sunlight and shine with rain. —Algernon Charles Swinburne	19
Blithe as the lark on sun-gilt wings High poised, or as the wren that sings In shady places to proclaim Her modest gratitude. —William Wordsworth	20