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

Henry Hart Milman

Hollow as the unbowell’d winds.

Steps … light as though a winged angel trod,
Over earth’s flowers, and feared to brush away,
Their delicate hues.

Shrink, as from a serpent in a knot of flowers.

Shrivelled like a burning scroll.

Thy smiles, like sunflowers in the golden light they love.

Soothing as the gale of eve.

Vain and unprofitable, as is the sunshine to a dead man’s eyes.