Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Rise

Rises and falls like a swan upon roaring water.
—Anonymous

Rise as a vapor.
—Anonymous

Rose like a phœnix, from the fires of time.
—Anonymous

Rose like sunlight from the sea.
—Anonymous

Rise like the white clouds on April skies.
—Anonymous

Rising like springs ingathered.
—R. D. Blackmore

Rising like water-columns from the sea.
—Lord Byron

Joy rises in me, like a summer’s morn.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Rose like a kite.
—William Cowper

Rose like a bewildering strain of oriental music.
—Frederick William Faber

Rise out of the hearth, like the garden of Hesperides.
—Edward Gibbon

Rising like pillared fire.
—Arthur Henry Hallam

Rising in the middle of it like a lump of self-raising dough.
—O. Henry

Rising in the air like eagle on the wing.
—Thomas Hood

Rose like dim fancies when a dream begins.
—Thomas Hood

Rising like Aphrodite from the wave.
—Charles Kingsley

Rose red as a beacon the wind had upblown.
—Sidney Lanier

Rising like the ruined arch of some aerial aqueduct.
—Henry W. Longfellow

Rose like an exhalation.
—John Milton

He (Burke) rose like a rocket, he fell like a stick.
—Thomas Paine

Rise from the ground like feather’d Mercury.
—William Shakespeare

Rises as ocean at the enchantment of the moon.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Rising as a shoreward sea.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Rose like dust before the whirlwind’s force.
—Bayard Taylor

Rise up as a great lion.
—Old Testament

True to rise as leaves on Autumn’s whirlwind borne.
—John Greenleaf Whittier

Rise,
Like spring-doves from the startled wood.
—John Greenleaf Whittier