Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Pass
Our memory passes like a ripple in the water, or a breeze in the air.
—Henri F. Amiel
Passes like a mode.
—Anonymous
Passed like an uncurbed cavalry.
—Anonymous
Time passes like the wind.
—Anonymous
Pass like a rolled syllable of midnight thunder from the coming day.
—Philip James Bailey
One solitary and foreseeing thought, passed, like a planet’s transit o’er the sun.
—Philip James Bailey
Passed, like the foam of the wave.
—Jane Barlow
As shadows cast by cloud and sun flit o’er the summer grass,
So, in thy sight, Almighty One! earth’s generations pass.
—William Cullen Bryant
Passed away as fairies vanish at the break of day.
—Hartley Coleridge
Thy grace must pass
As unremembered things.
—Lord De Tabley
Time passed away as a tale which is told.
—Charles Dickens
Passed out as quickly as a sunbeam.
—Charles Dickens
New generations pass,
Like shadows on the grass.
—Julia C. R. Dorr
Passed like a meteor.
—Alexandre Dumas, père
Pass away as in vision.
—Frederic Harrison
The generations pass, like autumn’s fruits,
Garnered, consumed, and springing fresh to life.
—James A. Hillhouse
Passed away like waves.
—Victor Hugo
Pass away—
As flowers that bloom at morn, at eve decay.
—Francis Scott Key
Oh, why should the spirit of mortal be proud?
Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast flying cloud,
A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave,
Man passes from life to his rest in the grave.
—William Knox
Little troubles pass like little ripples in a sunny river.
—Walter Savage Landor
Passed like the mournful cry of sunward sailing cranes.
—Henry W. Longfellow
When she had passed, it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music.
—Henry W. Longfellow
Passed like a dream away.
—Thomas Babington Macaulay
They pass like a shade away.
—James Macpherson
They pass
Like a breath from the face of a glass.
—Don Marquis
Pass away, like a thin cloud that melts across the moon.
—James Montgomery
Passed
Like autumn foliage withering in the blast.
—James Montgomery
Passed like a day-dream.
—Thomas Moore
All gently pass away,
Like mists that flee
From a summer sea.
—Thomas Moore
All my days
Passed like an empty vision.
—Lewis Morris
Pass’d, like swift clouds across a windy sky.
—Arthur Joseph Munby
Passed along the waves like the chariot of Neptune.
—Baron Karl F. H. von Münchausen
Passed away, like shadows of the moon.
—Adelaide A. Procter
Passed away,
Like the remembrance of a guest that tarrieth but a day.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti
Pass’d by me
As misers do by beggars.
—William Shakespeare
Passed, like a cloud on the blast.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Must pass, as grains of sand must fall,
Beneath the infinite calm sea
Of ages and eternity.
—Harry B. Smith
Passed away like summer clouds.
—Robert Southey
And pass as love and sorrow pass,
As shadows flashing down a glass,
As dew-flowers blowing in flowerless grass.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Passes as the grey dew from the morning mountain grasses.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Pass as the flight of a year.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Passed, like a sudden squall that tears the sea,
Yet leaves a sun to smile the billows down.
—Bayard Taylor
Pass like a light.
—Alfred Tennyson
Passeth away as a cloud.
—Old Testament
Pass through thy hand as a river.
—Old Testament
Passed, like a sweet but transient dream.
—Frank Waters
As a cloud of the sunset, slow melting in heaven,
As a star that is lost when the daylight is given,
As a glad dream of slumber, which wakens in bliss,
She hath pass’d to the world of the holy from this.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Pass,
Like shadows through a twilight land.
—Oscar Wilde
Passed like a fancy that is swept away.
—William Wordsworth