Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Faint

Faint as the hum of distant bees.
—Anonymous

Fainter than scent of soever long-kept lavender.
—Max Beerbohm

Faint … like a lost star.
—Robert Browning

Faint as a waft from years
Long past.
—Helen G. Cone

As faint and helpless as a new-born babe.
—Lord De Tabley

Faint as the music that in dreams we hear.
—Mary Ainge De Vere

I hear their cry afar
Faint like the death-song of a fallen star.
—Arturo Graf

Faint as the dim ghost of a dream-sea.
—Richard Hovey

Faint as the light of stars and wan.
—Jean Ingelow

Faint as a glimmering taper’s wasted light.
—Sir William Jones

Faint as the visions in a dream.
—Rudyard Kipling

Faint as the Spring.
—Owen Meredith

Faint … like chimings from some far-off tower.
—Agnes. C. Mitchell

A faint strain,
As if some echo, that among
Those minstrel halls had slumber’d long,
Were murm’ring into life again.
—Thomas Moore

Faint and forlorn … like the breath of a spirit sighing.
—Mrs.
—Norton

Faint as the voice of the telephone.
—Morgan Robertson

Faint as shed flowers.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Faint … as the wavering flame of spirits of wine.
—W. Clark Russell

Faint, like distant clarion feebly blown.
—Sir Walter Scott

Faint as the far-off clouds of evening.
—Robert Southey

Faint as the moonlight that rests upon your sleep, or the first glow of dawn that wakes you to new endeavor.
—Hermann Sudermann

Faint as the moon if the sundawn gleam.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Faint as the shadows of ages
That sunder their season and ours.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Faints like a dazzled morning moon.
—Alfred Tennyson

Faint as half-forgotten dreams.
—Frank Waters

Fainter than a young lamb’s bleat.
—William Butler Yeats