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

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

Weep


Weeps like a walrus o’er the waning moon. —Anonymous	1
Wept like a lost child. —George W. Bagby	2
Weep like a cut vine-twig. —Robert Browning	3
Wept like a baffled child. —Edward Bulwer-Lytton	4
Weep like a crocodile. —Robert Burton	5
Weepe as dooth a child that is ybete. —Geoffrey Chaucer	6
Weep … like a dear innocent child bitterly afflicted. —Friederich Heinrich Karl, Baron de La Motte-Fouqué	7
I must seem like a hanging moon, a little waterish for a while. —Thomas Middleton	8
Like a fair flower surcharged with dew, she weeps. —John Milton	9
I’m weeping like a willow That droops in leaf and bough. —George P. Morris	10
Weep, like a young wench that had buried her grandam. —William Shakespeare	11
Weeps like a wench that had shed her milk. —William Shakespeare	12