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

Henry Brooke

Enlivening as a sneeze.

Gay as a woman’s wish.

Gone, like traces on the deep,
Like a spectre grasp’d in sleep,
Dews inhal’d from morning glades,
Melting snows, and gliding shades.

Hoarse as the rustling of autumnal breeze.

Pure as the expanse of Heaven.

Sad as a thousand sighs, when the dark winds sob through the yews.

Various as woman’s will.