Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Transient

Transient as the summer storm.
—Anonymous

Transient as the inconstant sigh.
—Lord Byron

Transient … as is the fleeting hour.
—William Cowper

Transient as breath shaking a flame.
—George Eliot

Transient as lightning.
—Thomas Hardy

Transient as vapours glimm’ring thro’ the glades.
—Walter Harte

Transient as the dew.
—John Ruskin

Transient as faith or as terror that bows men’s knees.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Transient as the glance
Of flying sunbeams.
—William Wordsworth