| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | Letitia Elizabeth Landon |
| | | A blush like sunrise o’er the rose. | 1 |
| Blushes like the birds of spring. | 2 |
| Bow’d like a sleeping flower. | 3 |
| Bright as Hope’s first smile. | 4 |
Her cheek was as a rainbow, it so changed,
As each emotion o’er its surface ranged. | 5 |
| Delicious as a dream. | 6 |
| Drooping like a rose rain-laden. | 7 |
| Evanescent as the crimson flush that tints the daybreak. | 8 |
| Eyes that droop like summer flowers. | 9 |
| Fair as the moonlight. | 10 |
| Glad as the skylark’s earliest song. | 11 |
| Glaring like red insanity. | 12 |
| Gleam like the golden flash of a moon-lit stream. | 13 |
| Green as hope before it grieves. | 14 |
| Light as love’s angel. | 15 |
| Lone like an eagle’s nest. | 16 |
| Mirth, like light, will all too often take its birth mid darkness and decay. | 17 |
| Sleep, like wrecks in the unfathom’d main. | 18 |
| Society is like a large piece of frozen water; and skating well is the great art of social life. | 19 |
| Eye sparkled, like the wine-cup’s brim. | 20 |
| Sweet as the sigh of the spring gale. | 21 |
| White as maiden purity. | 22 |
White,
Like a gravestone seen in the pale moonlight. | 23 | | |
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