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

Lead

Leads the passions, like the orb that guides,
From pole to pole, the palpitating tides.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Leads them like a thing
Made by some other deity than nature.
—William Shakespeare

Lead thee, as a staff directs the blind.
—Jonathan Swift

Lead as a mother.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Led lovingly like hound in huntsman’s leash
Or child by finger.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne