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

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

Matthew Prior


Like leaves, as chance inclin’d, Those wills were chang’d with every wind.	1
Dauntless as death.	2
As the opening blossom fair.	3
Happy as heroes after battles won.	4
Love, like death, makes all distinction void.	5
Lovely as light.	6
To the mind’s eye things will appear, At distance through an artful glass, But bring the flattering objects near, They’re all a senseless gloomy mass.	7
Ruddy as gold his cheek.	8
Similes are like songs in love; They much describe; they nothing prove.	9
Soft as yielding air.	10
Straight as the palm tree.	11
Sure as key of lock.	12
White like a young flock, Coeval, newly shorn, from the clear brook recent, and branching on the sunny rock.	13