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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Deep
 
  Deep as the fountains of sleep.
            —Anonymous		  1
  Deep as the void above.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Deep as evening red.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Deep as despair.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Deep as ever plummet sounded.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Deep as grief.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Deep as the North Star.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Deep as though the globe were split to let the waters through.
            —William E. Aytoun		  8
  Deep as Heaven’s own luminous blue.
            —Philip James Bailey		  9
  Deep as death.
            —Philip James Bailey		  10
  Deep in the heart as meteor stones in earth, dropped from some higher sphere.
            —Philip James Bailey		  11
  Deep as midnight’s starry treasure.
            —Thomas Lovell Beddoes		  12
  France kept her old affection as deeply as the sepulchre the corse.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  13
  Deep as hell from high heaven.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  14
  Deep as Tophet, high as heaven.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  15
  Silence as deep as eternity.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  16
  Deep as life and death.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  17
  Deep as the murmurs of the falling floods.
            —James Cawthorn		  18
  Deep and yet soft, like notes from some long chord responsive to thrilled air.
            —George Eliot		  19
  Deep as annihilation.
            —Thomas Hardy		  20
  Sighs as deep as destiny.
            —Jean Ingelow		  21
  Deep as devils grope.
            —Sidney Lanier		  22
  Joy as deep as heaven’s blue.
            —T. T. Lynch		  23
  Deep as that grave in Hell where Cæsar lies.
            —Edward Markham		  24
  As deep as Pedwell.
            —Scottish Proverb		  25
  Deep and tender as the blue of a baby’s eye.
            —James Whitcomb Riley		  26
  Deep as the unfathomed endless sea.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  27
  Chasms as deep and as drear as the tomb.
            —John Ruskin		  28
  Deep as hell.
            —William Shakespeare		  29
  Deep as the sea.
            —William Shakespeare		  30
  Deep as night and Heaven.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  31
  Deep as deep in water sinks a stone.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  32
  Deep as music’s heart.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  33
  Deep as the clear unsounded sea.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  34
  Deep as the deep dim soul of a star.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  35
        Deep as the depths unsought
Whence faith’s own hope may redeem us naught.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  36
  Deep as the pit of hell.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  37
  Deeper than men’s dreams of hell are deep.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  38
  Deeper than the green sea’s grass.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  39
  Deep as hate.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  40
  Deep as the grave.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  41
  Deeper than time or space.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  42
  A grief as deep as life or thought.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  43
  Deep as the shadow of Rome.
            —John R. Thompson		  44
  Deep as the bottomless pit.
            —George Sylvester Viereck		  45
  A tone as low and deep as love’s first whisper.
            —N. P. Willis		  46
  Deeper than the vanities of power, or in vain pomp of glory.
            —N. P. Willis		  47
 
 
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