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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Fair
 
  Fair as virtuous friendship: as the candid blush of him who strives with fortune to be just.
            —Mark Akenside		  1
  Fair as Esther.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Fair as a friar that is invited to dinner.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Fair as a saint.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Fairer than fancy ever feigned.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Fair as Lady Dove.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Fair as stars that shine in summer skies.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Fair as the garden of Shiraz.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Fair as the glorified isles of the blest.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Mary is fair as the morning dew.
            —Anonymous		  10
  Fair as the virgin’s vows.
            —Anonymous		  11
  Fair as the wild rose.
            —Anonymous		  12
  Fair as winter lilies.
            —Anonymous		  13
  Fair as youths by brides caress’d.
            —Anonymous		  14
  As fair as summer roses.
            —Thomas Ashe		  15
  Fair as lotus when the morn kisses its opening petals red.
            —Ancient Ballad of Hindustan		  16
  Fair as the cup of a lily held in a maiden’s hand.
            —Eugene Barry		  17
  Fair as the floweret opening in the morn.
            —James Beattie		  18
  Fair as the bud unblasted.
            —Beaumont and Fletcher		  19
  Fair as the morn.
            —Michael Bruce		  20
  Fair as the hills of Paradise.
            —William Cullen Bryant		  21
  Fair as pearls.
            —Gottfried A. Bürger		  22
  As fair a thing as e’er was form’d of clay.
            —Lord Byron		  23
  Fair as the crowning rose of the whole wreath.
            —Lord Byron		  24
  Fair, as the first that fell of womankind.
            —Lord Byron		  25
  Fair as the forest.
            —Alice Cary		  26
  Fair as Ambition’s dream, or Beauty’s face.
            —Thomas Chatterton		  27
  Faire as is the bryghte morwe [morning].
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  28
  Faire as is the rose in May.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  29
  Fair as Eden’s bowers.
            —Samuel Taylor Coleridge		  30
  Fair, as the bosom of the swan.
            —Samuel Taylor Coleridge		  31
  Fair withal, as spirits are.
            —Samuel Taylor Coleridge		  32
  Fair as any goddess who sweeps through the Ivory Gate.
            —Mortimer Collins		  33
  As fair as truth.
            —Barry Cornwall		  34
  Fair as cygnet’s down.
            —Nathaniel Cotton		  35
  Fair as light in heaven, or flowers in spring.
            —Allan Cunningham		  36
  Fair as Spenser’s dream.
            —Sydney Dobell		  37
  Fair as those old fields we knew.
            —Sydney Dobell		  38
  Fair as a sculptor’s marble dream.
            —Julia C. R. Dorr		  39
  Fair as the morning’s snow.
            —Ancient Erse		  40
  As honor fair.
            —William Falconer		  41
  As Cynthia fair.
            —Francis Fawkes		  42
  Fair… as all the flowers of May.
            —Francis Fawkes		  43
  Fair as the flowers themselves.
            —John Fletcher		  44
  Fair as Aurora.
            —Alice A. Folger		  45
A face as fair as summer skies,
Where many a blush in ambush lies.
            —H. B. Freeman		  46
  Fair as a young maid asleep beneath new fallen snow.
            —Théphile Gautier		  47
  Fair as the dawn in the spring time.
            —Giacosa and Illica		  48
  Fair as Paphos’ brooks.
            —Robert Greene		  49
  Fair as Helen, Sparta’s pride.
            —Arthur Guiterman		  50
  Fair as the Spring.
            —Walter Harte		  51
  Fair as the summer’s evening skies.
            —Walter Harte		  52
  Fair she is as foam-born Venus.
            —Heinrich Heine		  53
  Fair, Lady Mary, as a lily in the sun.
            —Henry Helford		  54
  Fair as Eve in Paradise.
            —Robert Herrick		  55
  Fair as a god.
            —Homer (Pope)		  56
  Fair as the new-born star that gilds the morn.
            —Homer (Pope)		  57
  Fair is she as the dreams young poets weave.
            —Thomas Hood		  58
  Fair as the wave-bleached lily of the stream.
            —Thomas Hood		  59
  Fair … as the spotless moon upon the midnight sea.
            —Horace		  60
      She as fair as any shepherdess
That ever was in mask or Christmas scene.
            —William Dean Howells		  61
  Fair as a woodland flower.
            —Mary Johnston		  62
  Fair as some wonder out of fairy land.
            —John Keats		  63
  Fairer than Phœbe’s sapphire-region’d star.
            —John Keats		  64
                As fair,
As Sion in her height of pride.
            —John Keble		  65
  Fair as a flower, and faded just as soon.
            —Omar Khayyám		  66
  Fair as the sun.
            —Charles Kingsley		  67
  Fair as bar of gold.
            —Rudyard Kipling		  68
  Fair as Aphrodite rising from the deep-blue Grecian sea.
            —Sigmund Krasinski		  69
  Fair as the moonlight.
            —Letitia Elizabeth Landon		  70
  Fair as original light first from the chaos shot.
            —Richard Lovelace		  71
  You’re fair and fresh as a morning in May.
            —Samuel Lover		  72
  Fair as the garden of God.
            —Lord Lyttelton		  73
  Fair as bride to altar lead.
            —Evan MacColl		  74
  Fair as a Seraph.
            —George Mac-Henry		  75
  Fair as the whitest snow on Scythian hills.
            —Christopher Marlowe		  76
O, thou art fairer than the evening air,
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
            —Christopher Marlowe		  77
  Fair as the spirit of the evening star.
            —Gerald Massey		  78
  Fair as dreams.
            —Owen Meredith		  79
She is fair as the spirit of light,
That floats in the ether on high.
            —Adam Mickiewicz		  80
  Fair as flame.
            —Richard Monckton Milnes		  81
  Fair as the noon sky.
            —John Milton		  82
  Fair as Orion.
            —James Montgomery		  83
  Fair as the rainbow shines through darkening showers.
            —James Montgomery		  84
  Fair as the Moon’s unclouded light.
            —Edward Moore		  85
        Your face is as fair and bright
As the foam on the wave in the morning light.
            —Lewis Morris		  86
Fair as the lightning thwart the sky,
As sun-dyed snow upon the high
Untrodden heaps of threatening stone
The eagle looks upon alone.
            —William Morris		  87
  Fair as an angel from the unknown land.
            —Dinah Maria Mulock		  88
  She is as fair as a peach.
            —Miles O’Reilly		  89
  Fair he was, like the rainbow of heaven.
            —Ossian		  90
  Fair as the summer-beauty of the fields.
            —Thomas Otway		  91
  Fairer than snow on the raven’s back.
            —Thomas Otway		  92
  Fair as youth and love.
            —Sir Joseph Noel Paton		  93
  Fair as a musk-willow forest.
            —Persian		  94
  Fair like the rose, ’midst paling flowers the queen.
            —Petrarch		  95
  As the opening blossom fair.
            —Matthew Prior		  96
  Fair, like goddesses.
            —François Rabelais		  97
  A face as fair as the summer dawn.
            —James Whitcomb Riley		  98
  Fine and fair as your school-boy sweetheart’s hair.
            —James Whitcomb Riley		  99
  Fair as a bridal chamber.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  100
  Fair thou art as moonrise after rain.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  101
  Fair as the flowers that maidens pluck for an hour’s delight.
            —Dante Gabriel Rossetti		  102
  Maiden fair as a silvery dream.
            —Francis S. Saltus		  103
  Fair as the summer.
            —Hayden Sands		  104
  Fair as the earliest beam of eastern light.
            —Sir Walter Scott		  105
  Fair as any mother’s child.
            —William Shakespeare		  106
  Fair as day.
            —William Shakespeare		  107
  Fair as text B in a copy-book.
            —William Shakespeare		  108
  Her face as fair as tho’ she had look’d on Paradise, and caught its early beauty.
            —William Shakespeare		  109
  Fair as breathing marble.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  110
  Eyes as fair as star-beams among twilight trees.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  111
  Fair as the fabulous asphodels.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  112
  Fairer than any wakened eyes behold.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  113
  Fair, like stars when the moon is awakened.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  114
  Like great god Saturne faire.
            —Sir Philip Sidney		  115
  As fair as the first beams of the morning.
            —Romanian Song		  116
  Faire as Phœbus sunne.
            —Edmund Spenser		  117
  Fair as a fairy.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  118
  Fair as a field in flower.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  119
  Fair as all that the world may call most fair, save only the sea’s own face.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  120
            Fair as any poison-flower
Whose blossom blights the withering bower
Whereon its blasting breath has power.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  121
  Fair as a star-shaped flower.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  122
  Fair as dawn.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  123
  Fair as dreams that die and know not what they were.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  124
  Fair as even the wakening skies.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  125
  Fair as flame.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  126
  Fair as fled foam.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  127
  Fair as heaven in spring.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  128
  Fair as hope divines.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  129
  Fair as life.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  130
  Fair as peace.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  131
            Clean and fair
As sunlight and the flowerful air.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  132
  Fair as the ambient gold of wall-flowers.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  133
  Fair as the eyes are fair.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  134
  Fair as the face of the star-clothed night.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  135
  Fair as the frondage each fleet year sees fade.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  136
  Fair as the morning.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  137
  Fair as the sunbright air.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  138
            Fair as the sundawn’s flame
Seen when May on her first-born day bids earth exult in her radiant name.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  139
  Fair as the world’s old faith of flowers.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  140
Fair as thine eye’s beam
Hidden and shown in heaven.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  141
  Fair as thought could dream.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  142
  Fair as youth.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  143
  Fair as some Arcadian dell.
            —Bayard Taylor		  144
  Fair as the last star that leaves the morning air.
            —Bayard Taylor		  145
  Fair as the loveliest landscape of pastoral England.
            —Bayard Taylor		  146
Fairer than Rachel by the palmy well,
Fairer than Ruth among the fields of corn.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  147
  Fair as the moon.
            —Old Testament		  148
  Fair as the daughters of Job.
            —Old Testament		  149
  Fair as lily leaves.
            —John T. Trowbridge		  150
  Fair as the day that bodes as fair a morrow.
            —August von Platen		  151
  Fair as a statue of marble.
            —Michael Vörösmarty		  152
  Fair as a gorgeous fabric of the East.
            —Michael Vörösmarty		  153
  Fair as the primrose mead, or blushing rose.
            —Thomas Warton		  154
  Fair as in Mirza’s Bagdad dream.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  155
                Fair
As Pison was to Eden’s pair.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  156
  Fairer than the day, or the flowery meads in May.
            —George Withers		  157
Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.
            —William Wordsworth		  158
  Fair as beams of light.
            —Thomas Yalden		  159
 
 
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