Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Droop

Droops like a broken lily.
—Anonymous

Droop, like to bees belated in the rain.
—Alfred Austin

Shee droopeth in her minde,
As, nipt by an ungracious winde,
Dothe some faire lillye flowre.
—English Ballad

Drooping like a falling blossom.
—Honoré de Balzac

She drooped like a lily bedewed in the valley.
—Patrick Brontë

Droop like wreaths of snow.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Droop’d as the willow when no winds can breathe.
—Lord Byron

Droops like some unpitied flower that the rain-fall washes down.
—Alice Cary

She drooped like a blossom bent by the wind.
—Edmondo de Amicis

Droops, like a rose, surcharged with morning dew.
—John Dryden

Drooping like plumes.
—Alexandre Dumas, père

The maidens droop, like meadow-grass when mown.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Drooping like Hyacinthus beneath the blow of the quoit.
—Charles Kingsley

Drooped like a lily tired
That lolls upon the stalk.
—Rudyard Kipling

Drooping like a rose rain-laden.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Drooped like a yacht with idle sails struck by a sudden blast, that dips them in the salt.
—George Meredith

Drooping like crystals in the gulf of time.
—George Meredith

Droops like a flower.
—Barry Pain

Droop like the trees in October.
—James Puckle

Droop, like unfolded wings half spread for flight.
—T. Buchanan Read

Droop like a shower-beaten flower.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Droops … like over-ripen’d corn
Hanging the head of Ceres’ plenteous load.
—William Shakespeare

Drooping like honny dew.
—Edmund Spenser

As a vine droops, when by divorce remov’d from the embraces of the elm she lov’d.
—George Stepney

Drooped
Like a flower in the frost.
—Celia Thaxter

Drooping like a dew-laden lily.
—Martin Farquhar Tupper

Adroop like a rained-on fowl.
—John Greenleaf Whittier