| Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916. | | | | Heinrich Heine |
| | | A dainty mouth like any crimson rose. | 1 |
| Desolate as a tomb. | 2 |
| Eyes like twin blue stars. | 3 |
| Fair she is as foam-born Venus. | 4 |
| Humming, like bees that are swarming. | 5 |
| Every man who marries is like the Doge who weds the Adriatic sea: he knows not what he may find therein,—treasures, pearls, monsters, unknown storms. | 6 |
That little mouth is like in this,
The rose-bush that so fair is,
For sly envenomed serpents hiss
In dark leaves where their lair is. | 7 |
| A dainty mouth like a crimson rose. | 8 |
| Vanished like an empty dream. | 9 | | |
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