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

Aaron Hill

Fruitful as the full-grown year.

Gone, like smoke dissolved in air.

Innocent as sleep.

Lively as the smiling day.

Melt like straggling snow that falls on fire.

Mild as sighing saints.

Noiseless as night’s soft shade.

Moves obscurely like the hand of fate.

Rapid as the ever-wheeling sun.

Rough as nutmeg-graters.

Soft as pity, and as blest.

Soft as upper air.

Sweet as new-blown breath of opening flow’rs.

Wit is like love—the softest is the best.