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| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. |
| Die |
| Die like a dog in a ditch. —Anonymous | 1 |
| The fresh roses on your cheeks shall die, Like flowers that wither in the shade. —Aphra Behn | 2 |
| Parting day Dies like the dolphin, whom each pang imbues With a new colour as it gasps away, The last still loveliest, till—’tis gone, and all is gray. —Lord Byron | 3 |
| Dies like cookery with the day that brought it forth. —Thomas Carlyle | 4 |
| Die like a rat in hole. —Ranger Gull | 5 |
| A remnant of beauty was dying out upon this face of sixteen, like the pale sun which is extinguished by frightful clouds at the dawn of a winter’s day. —Victor Hugo | 6 |
| It died away Like the pale sunbeam of a weeping day. —Jacques Jasmin | 7 |
| All my glories die, Like flowers transplanted to a colder sky. —Lord Lyttelton | 8 |
| She died—as die the roses On the ruddy clouds of dawn, When the envious sun discloses His flame, and morning’s gone. —Evan MacColl | 9 |
| Dies away, Like relics of some faded strain, loved voices, lost for many a day. —Thomas Moore | 10 |
| Die as April’s cowslips die. —John Payne | 11 |
| Dies away like a peal of cathedral bells. —Bernardin de Saint-Pierre | 12 |
| Dies as dreams that die with the sleep they feed. —Algernon Charles Swinburne | 13 |
| As a star feels the sun and falters, Touched to death by diviner eyes— As on the old gods’ untended altars The old fire of withered worship dies. —Algernon Charles Swinburne | 14 |
| Die as a leaf that dies in a day. —Algernon Charles Swinburne | 15 |
| Died like odor rapt in the winged wind, Borne into the alien lands and far away. —Alfred Tennyson | 16 |
| Died away like a sigh in the shadow of the infinite vault. —Giovanni Verga | 17 |
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