Paul Hamilton Hayne Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

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

Paul Hamilton Hayne


Aimless as an autumn leaf Borne in November’s idle winds afar.	1
Ardent as the lips of love.	2
Ascend, like angels beautiful, a shining Jacob’s ladder of the mind.	3
Capricious as the vagrant wind.	4
Dreadfully, as if from realms of mystical despairs.	5
Ebb like the tides of a living heart.	6
A nameless charm enthralling, like the ghost of music melting on a rainbow spray of sound.	7
Fierce as sin.	8
Flashes … like a revelation.	9
Flashed like dazzling arrow tipped With amorous heat.	10
Fresh as a blossom bathed by April rain.	11
A glance as bright as a gnome’s in his mine of gold.	12
Glide As thought through spirits sanctified.	13
Graceful as a springborn fairy.	14
Impalpable as stars-beams in deep seas.	15
The kisses of thy deathless lips, Like strange star-pulses, throbbed through space.	16
Pure as infant’s brow.	17
Shrill … like the tingling steel of an elfin gong.	18
Cheeks, soft as September’s rose Blushing but faintly on its faltering stem.	19
Sparkling, as if a Naiad’s silvery feet In quiet and coy retreat, Glanced through the star-gleams on calm summer nights.	20
Divinely stirred, As if the vanished soul of Keats, Had found its new birth in a bird.	21
Sweet as tropic winds at night.	22
Tranquil as the clear moonlight, that woos the palms on Orient shores.	23
Vanished like a baleful star.	24
Pure and white, As some shy spirit in a haunted place.	25
White as the lips of passion.	26