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

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

William Allen Butler


Calm as Heaven’s serenest deeps.	1
Crazy as a June bug.	2
Fixed as the polar star.	3
As forlorn as the faded coquette.	4
In fact, man ain’t constructed for a heavy strain of bliss. Human beings are like boilers, and the same rules, it would seem, Have an equal application to affection and steam.	5