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

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

Francis Thompson


Artless as the air.	1
Candid as the skies.	2
Dreadful as battle arrayed.	3
But woe’s me, and woe’s me, For the secrets of her eyes! In my visions fearfully They are ever shown to be As fringèd pools, whereof each lies Pallid—dark beneath the skies Of a night that is But one blear necropolis And her eyes a little tremble, in the wind of her own sighs.	4
Forward like a wind-blown flame.	5
Gaze for gaze As baby looks on baby.	6
Hacked like dull wood of every day.	7
Hot as a swinked gypsy.	8
The red Is meshed in the brown, Like a rubied sun in a Venice sail.	9
New as sight.	10
Old as hope.	11
Sanguine, like a globe of blood.	12
Shameful as a sin.	13
Shook like loosened music.	14
Her waving hair shook like music.	15
Strengthless as a noon-belated moon, Or as the glazing eyes of watery heaven, When the sick night sinks into deadly swoon.	16
Throbbing like a wounded bird.	17