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

Green

Green as May.
—James Lane Allen

Green as a gooseberry.
—Anonymous

Green as a gourd.
—Anonymous

Green as a lizard.
—Anonymous

Green as bottled glass.
—Anonymous

Green as emeralds.
—Anonymous

Green as grass.
—Anonymous

Green as the deep waters.
—Anonymous

Green as the sea.
—Anonymous

Green as a leaf.
—Thomas Ashe

As green as any privet-hedge a bird might choose to build in.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Green as blissful Eden.
—R. C. Dutt

Green as the mantled pool.
—Thomas Hood

Green as hope before it grieves.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Green as a meadow by Chaucer.
—Richard Le Gallienne

As green as the leaves of the fir tree.
—Mabinogion

Green as jealousy.
—George Meredith

Green as an arum leaf.
—Ouida

Green as the grave of a loved one.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti

Green as leeks.
—William Shakespeare

Green as the forest’s night.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Green as summer.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Green as the salt-sea billows.
—William Wordsworth