| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | Celia Thaxter |
| | | Dancing like a bright and buoyant flame. | 1 |
Drooped
Like a flower in the frost. | 2 |
Ethereal, like a lovely ghost
Soft looming in the hazy distance dreaming. | 3 |
| Glided like a dream. | 4 |
Glorious as if a glimpse were given
Within the western gates of heaven. | 5 |
Grieve like the stranger-tended child,
Which seeks its mother’s arms, and sees and feels them not. | 6 |
| Joyous as the laughter of a child. | 7 |
| Light as a dry leaf in the winter woods. | 8 |
| Mournful, like the voice of one who raves. | 9 |
| Pure as the breath of dawn. | 10 |
| Rosy as rifts of dawn. | 11 |
| Shrieking, like a soul in pain. | 12 |
| Steady as tramp of marching feet. | 13 |
| Subtle as light. | 14 |
| Sweet as the apple-blossoms. | 15 |
Sweet and fresh
As the flower-skirted streams of Staffordshire. | 16 |
| Sweet as the music of Apollo’s lyre. | 17 |
| Unconscious as a flower. | 18 |
| Worthless as the lightest falling leaf. | 19 | | |
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