Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Glorious
Glorious as a victory for the victor.
—Anonymous
Glorious as when Pericles ruled over Athens.
—Anonymous
Glorious as the sun.
—Beaumont and Fletcher
Glorious … as spreads before us the sky’s unspeakable blue.
—Mary Geoghegan
Glorious as the morning star of heaven.
—Robert Greene
As glorious as the portal of the sun.
—Robert Greene
Glorious as a heavenly promise.
—G. T. Hill
Glorious as the rainbow’s birth.
—Gerald Massey
Glorious as the Spring.
—Philip Massinger
Glorious as a midnight star.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti
Glorious as purple twilight.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti
Thou art
As glorious to this night, being o’er my head,
As is a winged messenger of heaven
Unto the white-upturned wondering eyes
Of mortals.
—William Shakespeare
Sweet and glorious as compassion.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Glorious as the sea.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Rose glorious as with gleam of gold unpriced.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Glorious as if a glimpse were given
Within the western gates of heaven.
—Celia Thaxter
Glorious as unclouded May.
—John Tobin
Glorious as the new-built town.
—Edmund Waller
Glorious, like the seer-seen angel
Standing in the sun.
—John Greenleaf Whittier