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

Tender

Tender as a bud.
—Anonymous

Tender as a capon.
—Anonymous

Tender as a woman.
—Anonymous

As tender as the murmur of the rain when great clouds gather.
—Edwin Arnold

Tender as the midnight moon.
—Alfred Austin

Buds tenderly …
Like a smile striving with a wrinkled face.
—Robert Browning

He is as tender of his clothes, as a coward is of his flesh, and as loath to have them disordered.
—Samuel Butler

Tender light, like the first moonrise of midnight.
—Lord Byron

Tender as April twilight.
—Bliss Carman

Tendre as dewe of flouer.
—Geoffrey Chaucer

Tendre as is a chicke.
—Geoffrey Chaucer

Tender as a fond young lover’s dream.
—John Cunningham

Tender as a lamb.
—Charles Dickens

Tender as russet crimson dropt on snows.
—Jean Ingelow

Tender as the breast of a mother.
—Robert G. Ingersoll

Tender as a summer night.
—Henry W. Longfellow

Tender, as if it twinned with sorrow.
—Henry Mackenzie

Tender as a summer heaven.
—Gerald Massey

Tender, like a mother’s dream of her child.
—George Meredith

Tender as a woman when wounds should be staunched for the broken and ruined and routed.
—Richard Realf

Tender as dawn’s first hill-fire.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti

Tender as infancy and grace.
—William Shakespeare

Tender as a youthful mother’s joy.
—Robert Southey

Tender as a hurt bird’s note.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Tender as tears.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Tender as sun-smitten dew.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Tender as the inside of the eyelid.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Tender as love’s tear when youth and beauty die.
—William Winter