Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Breast
Breasts as the buds of May.
—Lord De Tabley
His breast is like a gentlewoman’s closet, which locks up every toy or trifle, or some bragging mountebank that makes every stinking thing a secret.
—John Earle (Microcosmography; A Piece of the World Discovered, 1628)
Her brest fairer than the vernal bloom of valley-lily, op’ning in a show’r.
—John Logan
Breasts half-globed
Like folded lilies deepset in the stream.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Breasts like clusters dropping balm.
—George Sandys
Her brest like to a bowl of creame uncurdded.
—Edmund Spenser
Breasts like spring.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Thy two breasts are like two young roes that are twins, which feed among the lilies.
—Old Testament