Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Weep
Weeps like a walrus o’er the waning moon.
—Anonymous
Wept like a lost child.
—George W. Bagby
Weep like a cut vine-twig.
—Robert Browning
Wept like a baffled child.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Weep like a crocodile.
—Robert Burton
Weepe as dooth a child that is ybete.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Weep … like a dear innocent child bitterly afflicted.
—Friederich Heinrich Karl, Baron de La Motte-Fouqué
I must seem like a hanging moon, a little waterish for a while.
—Thomas Middleton
Like a fair flower surcharged with dew, she weeps.
—John Milton
I’m weeping like a willow
That droops in leaf and bough.
—George P. Morris
Weep, like a young wench that had buried her grandam.
—William Shakespeare
Weeps like a wench that had shed her milk.
—William Shakespeare