Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Brighten
Brighten like a morning of young spring.
—John M. Leavitt
Brightened as in sunshine gleam the ripples
That the cold wind makes in rivers.
—Henry W. Longfellow
Brighten, like a meadow when the sun comes out.
—Dinah Maria Mulock
Brightened, like the full moon of heaven; when the clouds vanish away, and leave her calm and broad in the midst of the sky.
—Ossian
Brightens all my sorrow,
Like gleams of sunshine in a low’ring sky.
—Ambrose Philips
Brightened
As a forest with birds.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Brightened like the moon.
—Bayard Taylor
Brightening like a star at eve.
—N. P. Willis