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| Black as if lightning-scarred or curst of God. | 1 |
| Blind as the blindworm. | 2 |
| Waters blue as violet banks. | 3 |
| Bright as Apollo’s breastplate. | 4 |
| Bright as May-day’s morn. | 5 |
| Bright as the pastures of the sun. | 6 |
| Shone as bright as sea-foam sparkling on a moonlit night. | 7 |
| Like shallow ice-films ’neath a courser’s hoof, burst. | 8 |
| Cold as the clod. | 9 |
| Countless as the stars that roof our night. | 10 |
| Dark and cold, like a benighted hemisphere. | 11 |
| Dark as a fiend. | 12 |
| Dolorous, like some starved shape that cowers in charnel crypt. | 13 |
| Dropped as dead. | 14 |
Her eyes grew bright and large,
Like springs rain-fed that dilate their marge. | 15 |
| Her eyes, like stars in midnight waters glossed. | 16 |
| Flushed … like a rose. | 17 |
| Happy as Spirits cleansed. | 18 |
| Hissed like a forked serpent. | 19 |
| Murmured like a whispering priest. | 20 |
| Murmur like the gales of spring. | 21 |
| Voices musical as birds or brooks. | 22 |
| Pure … like aureole round the forehead of a saint. | 23 |
| Quivers like the tail of swine gladdened by a corn feast. | 24 |
| Like the mother of some victor chief rejoices. | 25 |
| Remote, like echoed voice of one the tombs among. | 26 |
| Roared like breakers in the night. | 27 |
| Shine out like the spine of a frosty hill in the wintry sun. | 28 |
| Shine out like flowering meads in spring. | 29 |
| Shunned like base praise and hireling’s mart. | 30 |
| Silent as a saint. | 31 |
| Steadfast, as the throne of God. | 32 |
| Sweet as some immeasurable rose, expanding leaf on leaf. | 33 |
| Swift as dead leaves by tempest borne. | 34 |
| Throbbed like some branch against some river swift. | 35 |
| Towering, like the keel-compelling sail that takes the topmost tempest. | 36 |
| Trembling like a bridal veil. | 37 |
| Unbounded, like infinity. | 38 |
| Veiled like noontide stars. | 39 |
| Voice, as pure and sweet as if from heaven. | 40 |
| Wailing like a midnight wind. | 41 |
| Warm as mead by May breezes fanned. | 42 |
| White as an infant’s spirit. | 43 |
| Wild as the lightning. | 44 |
| Wild as the waves. | 45 |
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