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

Gentle

Gentle as a fawn.
—Irish Ballad

Gentle as a love-sick maid.
—Aphra Behn

Gentle as a turtle-dove.
—R. D. Blackmore

As gentle as the lover’s sighs.
—Claudian

Gentle as the moon.
—Richard Henry Dana (1787–1879)

Gentle and placid as Socrates.
—Alphonse Daudet

Gentle as sleep.
—Lord De Tabley

Gentle as a feather-stroke.
—George Eliot

Gentle as the falling dew.
—Hesiod (Cooke)

Voice gentle as the breeze that plays in the evening among the spices of Sahara.
—Dr. Samuel Johnson

More gentle than the wind in summer.
—John Keats

As gentle an’ soft as the sweet summer air.
—Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Gentle as truth.
—William James Linton

Gentle as chaines that honor binde.
—Richard Lovelace

Gentle as a sigh love-fraught.
—Evan MacColl

Gentle, loving, kind
Like Mary singing to her mangered child.
—George MacDonald

Gentle as infancy.
—William Thompson Price

Gentle as the cradle-babe.
—William Shakespeare

They are as gentle
As zephyrs blowing below the violet.
—William Shakespeare

Gentyll as faucounOr hauke of the towre.
—John Skelton

Gentle as eve.
—John Taylor

Music that gentler on the spirit lies,Than tir’d eyelids upon tir’d eyes.
—Alfred Tennyson

The queen as soft and gentle, like a moonbeam white and fair.
—Ludwig Uhland

Gentle as an infant child.
—William Wordsworth

Gentle as the morning light.
—William Wordsworth

Gentle as a jay on tree.
—Worlde and the Chylde