| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | Barry Cornwall |
| | | Age, like a double-faced Janus, looks all ways, and ponders wisely on the past. | 1 |
| Awaken, like seas by a mighty tempest shaken. | 2 |
| Blushes like a new-born flower. | 3 |
| Blush as hot as June. | 4 |
| As bold as the blast. | 5 |
| Breath like the sweets from the hawthorn tree. | 6 |
| Bright as truth. | 7 |
| With a cheek like a burning rose. | 8 |
| O my love has an eye, Like a star in the sky. | 9 |
| As fair as truth. | 10 |
| By all forgot, like a flower whose stem is broken. | 11 |
| Lovely as the morning. | 12 |
| Mad … like the warrior in the fight. | 13 |
| Merry as the month of May. | 14 |
She mourns, like the sweet wind grieving in
The pines on an autumn night. | 15 |
Tread softly,—softly, like the foot
Of winter, shod with fleecy snow. | 16 |
Sparkling … like creatures in whose sunny veins
The blood is running bright. | 17 |
| Swift as a lover’s dreams. | 18 |
Tremble,
Like the loose wrack in the sky,
When the four wild winds assemble. | 19 | | |
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