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

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

Tear


Tears of joy, like summer raindrops, are pierced by sunbeams. —Hosea Ballou	1
Pearly tears, like rose’s dew, wept she. —Emanual Von Geibel	2
Sheds ceaseless tears, like dew on Hermon’s hill. —Judah HaLevi	3
Tearful and trembling as a dewy rose The wind has shaken till it fills the air With light and fragrance. —Oliver Wendell Holmes	4
Tears like pears. —Victor Hugo	5
Tears herald smiles, as weeping April does this sunny May. —James M. Morton	6
From his eyes a stream of tears descended like a broken necklace of pearls. —Asian	7
Shining through tears, like April-suns in showers, that labor to o’ercome the cloud that loads them. —Thomas Otway	8
Tears as big as ostrich’s eggs. —François Rabelais	9
Then fresh tears Stood on her cheeks, as doth the honey-dew Upon a gather’d lily almost wither’d. —William Shakespeare	10
Tears … shone as the dew on a lily, at the rising of the sun. —Hersart de la Villemarqué	11
Her tears, like drops of molten lead, With torrents burn the passage to my heart. —Edward Young	12