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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Warm
 
  Warm as a mouse in a churn.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Warm as sunbeams.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Warm as the glow of a topaz.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Warm as Venus.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Warm as a cricket.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  5
  Warm as red sky’s passing blush.
            —Charlotte Brontë		  6
  Warm as the spark Prometheus stole.
            —Eliza Cook		  7
  Warm in affection as Phœbus at noon.
            —John Gilbert Cooper		  8
  Warm as ecstasy.
            —William Cowper		  9
  Warm as a prayer in Paradise.
            —George Darley		  10
  Warm as mead by May breezes fanned.
            —Aubrey De Vere		  11
  Warm as sun at noon’s high hour.
            —Paul Laurence Dunbar		  12
Warms the soul,
Like the blushing bowl.
            —Francis M. French		  13
  Warm as toast.
            —John Gay		  14
  Warm as the zeal of youth when first inspired.
            —John Gay		  15
  Warm as a sunned cat.
            —Thomas Hardy		  16
  Warmed, like a dove fledging in its downy nest.
            —Charles Harpur		  17
Warm as if the brush
Of Titian or Velasquez brought the flush
Of life into their features.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  18
  Warm as young blood.
            —Thomas Hood		  19
Warm as when Aurora rushes
Freshly from the god’s embrace,
With all her shame upon her face.
            —Thomas Hood		  20
  Warm as a dove’s nest among summer trees.
            —John Keats		  21
  Warm as Cytherea.
            —George Mac-Henry		  22
Her touch was as warm as the tinge of the clover
Burnt brown as it reached to the kiss of the sun.
            —Joaquin Miller		  23
Warm and meek,
Like curls upon a rosy cheek.
            —Thomas Moore		  24
  Warm as life.
            —John Payne		  25
  Warm as wool.
            —John Peele		  26
  Warm and cosy as a bird nest.
            —Alexander Smith		  27
  Warm as a stove.
            —Laurence Sterne		  28
  Warm and soft as the dome aloft.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  29
  Glow warm as the thyme.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  30
  Warm as a new-made bride.
            —Bayard Taylor		  31
  Warm as a love-sick poet’s muse.
            —William Thomson		  32
  Warm as sunshine.
            —William Wordsworth		  33
 
 
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