| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | Edmund Gosse |
| | Mary with her cheerful eyes,
Like heartsease where a dew drop lies. | 1 |
| Azure eyes, like stars upon the river’s brink. | 2 |
| The Past is like a funeral gone by. The Future comes like an unwelcome guest. | 3 |
| Ribanded and garlanded like a thyrsus. | 4 |
| Lips as rounded as a cherry. | 5 |
| Lips like warm carnations. | 6 |
| The Past is like a funeral gone by. The Future comes like an unwelcome guest. | 7 |
| Roused, like homeward wishes in wanderer’s heart. | 8 |
| Silent like a glacier bed. | 9 |
| Unseen, like the wind. | 10 |
Arms untwined, like some twin stream
That parts at last in hastening to the sea. | 11 |
| Warbled like a happy bird. | 12 |
| Weak as an eddy in the sandy wind. | 13 |
| Winter, like a felon ghost, that with its viewless presence chills the blood. | 14 | | |
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