| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | Bliss Carman |
| | | Austere as the dawn. | 1 |
| Calm as a field of snow. | 2 |
| Calm, unmoved as the very noon and centre of being. | 3 |
| Cleave to you as a soul to its freedom cleaves. | 4 |
| Ephemeral as dew. | 5 |
| Fumed, like champagne that is fizzy. | 6 |
| All gracious and good as when God made the living creatures, and none was afraid. | 7 |
| As humble as the grass. | 8 |
| Intimate, fluctant, free, like the clasp and the cling of waters. | 9 |
| Jerking … like the lid of a boiling pot. | 10 |
| Melancholy as Irish melodies. | 11 |
| Mounts as a soul from flesh escaping. | 12 |
I ran like the drift on the ice low curled
When the winds of Yule are abroad on the world. | 13 |
| Scattered with as little premeditation as the birds scattered their songs. | 14 |
| A sigh like driven wind or foam. | 15 |
| Sighing … as though the sea were mourning above an ancient grief. | 16 |
| The sea sparkled as if it smiled. | 17 |
| Stark as a gust of the sea. | 18 |
| Still as a summer noon. | 19 |
| Straight as a bull’s back against the white sky. | 20 |
| Sure as the wold gulls make seaward. | 21 |
| Sweet as the sundown. | 22 |
| Tender as April twilight. | 23 |
Veers and swings,
Like an homing swallow with nightfall in her wings. | 24 |
| Whimper like a child for dread. | 25 |
| White as a cloth. | 26 | | |
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