| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | Torquato Tasso |
| | Attending,
As if their lives were on his words depending. | 1 |
His threatening eyes
Like flaming torches burned. | 2 |
Faithful, from day to day,
As Hesperus, that leads the sun his way. | 3 |
| Fierce as flaming fire. | 4 |
| Rage … like boiling liquor in a seething pot. | 5 |
| Reels like a falling cedar. | 6 |
Shake,
As winds tall cedars toss on mountains hoar. | 7 |
Slain and lost,
Like a sweet flower nipp’d with untimely frost. | 8 |
| Her rich locks spread like sunbeams on the wind. | 9 |
| As swift as fiery lightning kindled new. | 10 |
| Unstaid as rolling waves in ocean flood. | 11 | | |
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