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

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

William Morris


Bald as is the winter tree.	1
Careless as gods for who might live or die.	2
Dim … like the far golden lustre of a dark god-like town.	3
Drifted as an unsteered log.	4
Fair as the lightning thwart the sky, As sun-dyed snow upon the high Untrodden heaps of threatening stone The eagle looks upon alone.	5
Grey, like the soft creeping twilight.	6
Quaked like river-shaken rush.	7
Rushed in as rush the waters through a cave That tunnels half a sea-girt lonely rock.	8
It goes slow, comes slow, like a big mill-wheel On some broad stream, with long green weeds a-sway, And soft and slow it rises and it falls, Still going onward.	9
Smiling like heaven.	10
Stared listlessly, Like those who walk in sleep.	11
As sweet as the rose-scented zephyr those do meet who near the happy islands of the blest.	12
Trembled as a man in fear.	13