| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | Charles L. Moore |
| | Blown apart
Like a rose that ready is
For the sun’s perfecting kiss. | 1 |
| Audacious as the day. | 2 |
| Circling like an eddy. | 3 |
Cleft like a narrow harvest swath,
O’ernodded by the plumes of wheat. | 4 |
| Disrobed, like a pure image in a secret shrine. | 5 |
| Eyes like setting planets, weak and dim. | 6 |
| Remote as the stars are. | 7 |
| Serene as summer in Arcadian hills. | 8 |
| Shifting like the boundaries of a dream. | 9 |
| Sob, like ocean’s tremor when it turns to ebb. | 10 | | |
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