William Butler Yeats Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

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

William Butler Yeats


Black as black.	1
Shining bright as a new lance.	2
Dance like a wave of the sea.	3
Fainter than a young lamb’s bleat.	4
Gone as a cloud faded into the sky.	5
Her eyes are grey like morning dew.	6
Like sunset were her lips.	7
Poetry is to philosophy what the Sabbath is to the rest of the week.	8
Unchainable as the dim tide.	9
Wavered like a summer rill, As her soft bosom rose and fell.	10
Woven … like bubbles in a frozen pond.	11