Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Bright
Bright as fair sunshine after winter’s storms.
—Æschylus
Bright as a blister.
—Anonymous
Bright as a dollar.
—Anonymous
Bright as a new penny.
—Anonymous
Bright as a pewter pot.
—Anonymous
Bright as at Creation’s day.
—Anonymous
Bright as fairies that in a sunbeam dance.
—Anonymous
Bright as Japanese bronze.
—Anonymous
Bright as new silver.
—Anonymous
Bright as saucepans.
—Anonymous
Bright as Sharon’s rose.
—Anonymous
Bright as sunshine on the sea.
—Anonymous
Bright as the captain’s cabin of a man-of-war.
—Anonymous
Bright was her soul as Dian’s crest.
—Anonymous
Bright as fullest moon in blackest air.
—Arabian Nights
Bright as though a moon of the fourteenth night.
—Arabian Nights
Bright as a beach in the moonlight.
—Alfred Austin
Bright as the great stream of stars which flows through heaven.
—Philip James Bailey
Bright like night with stars.
—Philip James Bailey
Bright, like river gold.
—Philip James Bailey
Bright as midnight’s brightest eyes.
—Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Bright, as Moerice-Queens in June.
—A. H. Beesly
Bright within
As when from the sky there shines unclouded heaven’s candle.
—Beowulf
Bright as an iceberg.
—R. D. Blackmore
Brighter than the sun through wheat.
—R. D. Blackmore
As bright as the waves of a rill.
—George H. Boker
Bright as the rippling ocean in sunshine.
—Robert Bridges (English)
Bright as icicles about a laurel-tree.
—Maria G. Brooks
Bright as Paphia’s eyes.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Bright, like a flash of sunlight.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Bright as the bow that spans the morn.
—Thomas Campbell
Bright as day.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Bright as stars in winter.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
As rody and bright as doth the yonge sonne
That in the ram is foure degrees ronne.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Bright as joy.
—Hartley Coleridge
Bright as the moon she shone, with silver light,
And charmed his sense with wonder and delight.
—William Congreve
Bright as truth.
—Barry Cornwall
Bright as orient morn.
—William Cowper
Bright as innocence.
—John Day
Bright as a flame.
—Daniel Defoe
Bright as sunset.
—Lord De Tabley
Bright as Apollo’s breastplate.
—Aubrey De Vere
Bright as May-day’s morn.
—Aubrey De Vere
Bright as the pastures of the sun.
—Aubrey De Vere
Shone as bright as sea-foam sparkling on a moonlit night.
—Aubrey De Vere
Bright as Heav’n.
—Wentworth Dillon
Bright and steady as a sunbeam.
—Dr. John Doran
Bricht as chrysolite.
—Gawain Douglas
Bright as goodness.
—John Dryden
Bright as Lucifer.
—William Dunbar
Bright and barren as the sea,
Bare of sorrow, bare of glee.
—Frederick William Faber
Bright … as all the flowers of May.
—Francis Fawkes
Bright as Phœbus.
—Francis Fawkes
Bright as live coals in the gloom.
—Gustave Flaubert
Bright as the breaking east.
—John Fletcher
Bright as any star in heaven.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Bright as at creation’s day.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Bright as before the day-star will appear.
—James Hammond
Bright as the visions of youth.
—Thomas Kibble Hervey
Bright as the jewels of the seven-starr’d crown.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Bright
As the resplendent cactus of the night
That floods the gloom with fragrance and with light.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Bright as noon in a conservatory of smoked glass.
—Ernest William Hornung
Bright as a beacon.
—Victor Hugo
Bright,
Most like a fleet of stars that southing go.
—Jean Ingelow
Brycht as gold.
—James the First
Bright as ruddy meteors through the sky.
—Robert Jephson
Bright as the lily of the vale.
—Sir William Jones
Bright as the bow of Iris.
—John Keats
Bright as the humming-bird’s green diadem.
—John Keats
Bright as the gold-sparks that glisten and quiver at morning or eve, on the breast of the river.
—E. M. Kelly
Bright as an opium-eater’s dream.
—Charles Kingsley
Bright as Hope’s first smile.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Bright as autumn’s fleecy clouds with golden glittering lightning decked.
—Lays of Ancient India
Bright as a button.
—Vincent Stuckey Lean (Collectanea)
Bright, like a fire-flash that crosses the depth of the night.
—Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Bright as living coal.
—Camille Lemonnier
Bright as the argent-horned mornes.
—Richard Lovelace
Bright as the ruby’s blaze.
—Samuel Lover
As bright as glow-worms in the night.
—John Lyly
Bright as the sunbeam of the morning.
—Evan MacColl
Bright as musky moss-rose summer’s sun.
—George Mac-Henry
Bright as the dimpled smiles that spring enwreath.
—George Mac-Henry
As bright as dewdrops in the sun.
—Charles Mackay
Bright like the moon when the stars are dimm’d with her blaze.
—Ewen Maclachan
Bright as the sunbeam’s light.
—Denis Florence McCarthy
Bright as new pottery.
—Maurice Maeterlinck
Bright as the Burning Bush of Moses.
—James. C. Mangan
Bright as beams of Paradise.
—Mary E. Mannix
Orange bright,
Like golden lamps in a green night.
—Andrew Marvell
Bright as orb that gives the day.
—William Mason
Rose-bright as a star dipped in sunset.
—Owen Meredith
As bright as a spot of June day sunshine on the grass.
—Donald G. Mitchell
Bright as Minerva’s yellow hair.
—Thomas Moore
Bright, like common things, glorified in love’s light.
—Dinah Maria Mulock
Bright as an angel new dropt from the sky.
—Thomas Parnell
Bright, as from blessed place.
—Stephen Phillips
Bright as the star of morn.
—Robert Pollok
Bright as the rising sun, in summer’s day.
—Alexander Pope
Bright as the star that fires autumnal skies.
—Alexander Pope
Bright, as visions of expiring maids.
—Alexander Pope
Bright
As golden morning’s flashing light.
—W. H. Prideaux
Bright as the sun.
—François Rabelais
Bright as the crimson glow when love first sends a missive to a maiden.
—C. D. Raymer
Bright as a cloud in the sunset air.
—T. Buchanan Read
Bright as an opening rose fresh with dew.
—Charles Reade
Bright as the sunset’s glow.
—Laura E. Richards
Bright as the light of her glorious eyes.
—James Whitcomb Riley
His smile as bright as the midst of May when the truce-bird pipes.
—James Whitcomb Riley
As bright as the morning sun.
—James Whitcomb Riley
Bright as the golden poppy is that the beach breeds for the surf to kiss.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti
Bright as a new bell.
—W. Clark Russell
Bright as all between cloudless skies and windless streams.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Bright as Spring.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Bright as are the Heavens that lie
Illumed by stars at night.
—Blanche Shoemaker
As bright … as the vestal fire.
—Christopher Smart
Bright as mountain snow.
—Robert Southey
Bright as the summer lightning when it spreads its glory o’er the midnight heaven.
—Robert Southey
Bright as doth the morning starre appeare.
—Edmund Spenser
Bright, like twinckling starres.
—Edmund Spenser
Bright as a rose new blown.
—Timothy Daniel Sullivan
Bright as an angel.
—Jonathan Swift
Bright as a dew-drop engilt of the sun on the sedge.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Bright as all above.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Bright as a warrior’s belt.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Bright as burns at sunrise, heaven’s own.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Song bright as heaven above the mounting bird.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Bright as heaven’s bare brow with hope of gifts withholden.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Bright as hell-fire.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Bright as hope.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Bright as Maytime.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Bright as mercy.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Bright as the kindling dews when the dawn begins.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Bright as the night is dark on the world.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Bright as though death’s dim sunrise thrilled it there and life re-risen took comfort.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Bright like spring with flower-soft wealth of branching tracery.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Brighter than joy’s own tears.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Bloom as bright as opening moon.
—Bayard Taylor
Bright as light.
—Alfred Tennyson
Bright and light as the crest of a peacock.
—Alfred Tennyson
Bright as the eyes of angels and as pure.
—William Thomson
Shine bright,
As sun-showers at the break of day.
—Henry D. Thoreau
Bright as a facet-cut diamond scattering light.
—Martin Farquhar Tupper
Bright as the seraphim pointing to eternity.
—Joseph Turnley
Bright as the blessings of heaven.
—Michael Vörösmarty
Bright as the promise of a cloudless day.
—C. P. Wilson
Bright as a sunbeam sleeping till a shower
Brush it away, or cloud pass over it.
—William Wordsworth
Bright as spring.
—William Wordsworth
Bright as the glimpses of eternity,
To saints accorded in their mortal hour.
—William Wordsworth
Bright as the dazzling snow.
—William Wordsworth
As a rainbow bright.
—Theodore Wratislaw
Bright as Phebus’ sphere.
—Sir Thomas Wyatt
Shining bright as a new lance.
—William Butler Yeats