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

Seek

Seeking, like a bleating lamb
Left out at night in shutting up the fold.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Seeks as does an old tailor his needle’s eye.
—Dante

As rivers seek the sea,
Much more deep than they,
So my soul seeks Thee
Far away.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti