Winthrop Mackworth Praed Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

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

Winthrop Mackworth Praed


Black as autumn’s sky.	1
Blue as autumn’s skies.	2
Changeful as a madman’s dream.	3
Her cheek was as white and cold as clay.	4
Fixed as a monument.	5
Pure as the summer skies.	6
Smile, like the sun in his glory on the bud.	7
His talk is like a stream which runs With rapid change from rocks to roses; It slipped from politics to puns; It passed from Mahomet to Moses; Beginning with the laws that keep The planets in their radiant courses, And ending with some precept deep For dressing eels or shoeing horses.	8
As white … as clay.	9