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| Beamed like the rising sun. | 1 |
| Bright, like common things, glorified in love’s light. | 2 |
| Brighten, like a meadow when the sun comes out. | 3 |
| Burst, like an enfranchised dove. | 4 |
| Calm as an angel from the blessed land. | 5 |
| Calm as a spent day of peace ideal. | 6 |
| Calm as a summer evening before the dark begins. | 7 |
| Calm as under ground. | 8 |
| Climax like a breaking wave. | 9 |
| Cold as a dead maid’s cheek. | 10 |
| Cosy as a nest of wood-pigeons. | 11 |
| All decay, like the glories of the Spring. | 12 |
| Disappeared like a shot. | 13 |
| Dropped like a stone down through the deep sea. | 14 |
| Eyes as soft as doves. | 15 |
| Fair as an angel from the unknown land. | 16 |
| Held her fast, mercilessly, as a snake holds a little bird. | 17 |
| Flashing like thought. | 18 |
| Gallantly as a good ship meets a heavy sea. | 19 |
| Happy as a poor man with a bag of gold. | 20 |
| Haunt … like an avenging fiend. | 21 |
| Mean as falsehood. | 22 |
| Fond duties melt away like April snows. | 23 |
| Merry as it were June. | 24 |
| Soldiers … as mute as on parade. | 25 |
| Proud as an emperor. | 26 |
| Pure as the pure in heart that shall see God. | 27 |
| Quiet as if the finger of God’s will had bade the human mechanism “be still.” | 28 |
| Roar like mad waves upon the shore. | 29 |
| Scared look, like a bird’s driven right into the fowler’s nest. | 30 |
| A secret at home is like a rock under tide. | 31 |
| Sharp as a ferret at a field-rat’s hole. | 32 |
| Soar like white-winged sea-birds into the Infinite Deep. | 33 |
| Soundless as light. | 34 |
| Start and quiver, as when some ignorant hand touches the barb hid in a long healed wound. | 35 |
| Steady as clock-work. | 36 |
| Sure as earth lives under snows, and Love lives under pain. | 37 |
| Fly swifter than light. | 38 |
| Vanish like gossamers of autumn eve. | 39 |
| White as a sinner’s shroud. | 40 |
| White as virgin’s pall. | 41 |
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