Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Blithe
Blithe as a bird on a cherry bough.
—Anonymous
Blithe as a grig.
—Anonymous
Danced as blithely and briskly as a lost red maple leaf fluttering madly in a keen October breeze.
—Anonymous
As blithe as the bird that rejoices.
—A. H. Beesly
Blithe as a boblink.
—Robert Browning
Blithe as our kettle’s boiling.
—Robert Browning
Blithe as the lark that each day hails the dawn.
—William Collins
Blithe as finches sing.
—William Cowper
Blithe as shepherd at a wake.
—William Cowper
Blithe as a bird new risen from the corn.
—Austin Dobson
Blithe as the first blithe song of birds that waken.
—Austin Dobson
Blithe as a bird in the spring.
—Tom Durfey
Blithe as May.
—R. Fletcher
Blithe, as if on earth
Were no such thing as woe.
—John Keble
Blithe as the orchards and birds with the new coming of spring.
—James Russell Lowell
Blithe as a blithe bird in air.
—Owen Meredith
As blithe and sunny as the summer days.
—James Whitcomb Riley
Blithe as swallows,
Wheeling in the summer sky at close of day.
—Robert Southey
Blither than Spring’s when her flowerful tresses
Shake forth sunlight and shine with rain.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Blithe as the lark on sun-gilt wings
High poised, or as the wren that sings
In shady places to proclaim
Her modest gratitude.
—William Wordsworth