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

Laurence Hope

Brilliant eyes,
As deeply dark as desert skies.

Dreaming, wistful eyes,
Dark and deep as mysterious skies,
Seen from a vessel at sea.

Wistful eyes,
As luminous and tender as Kotri’s twilight spies.

Red lips like a living, laughing rose.

Pale as the Champa flowers.

Swift as a swallow heading south.