William Ernest Henley Similes. Frank J. Wilstach, comp. 1916. A Dictionary of Similes

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

William Ernest Henley


Black as the pit.	1
Bland as a Jesuit.	2
Death and Time, they chime and chime, like bells at sunset falling.	3
Her little face is like a walnut shell With wrinkling lines.	4
Flashes like the shining soul of a jest.	5
Frank as the call of April birds.	6
Galloping, as with dispatches from the Pit, Between his hell-bound hounds.	7
Gleams like an angel-market.	8
Glowed like a coal, In the throat of the furnace.	9
Glows like a kiln.	10
Quiet as a statue.	11
Ride Like fire on some high errand of the race.	12
The wistful stars Shine like good memories.	13
Sober as a hymn.	14
Soft as the whisper shut within a shell.	15
Sprang like a wave In the wind.	16
Thrills As if the Enchanted Castle at the heart Of the wood’s dark wonderment Swung wide his valves, and filled the dim sea-banks With exquisite visitants.	17
Unending as the river and the stars.	18