Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Burn
Burn into your soul like a curse.
—Anonymous
Burned like a spilth of light
Out of the crashing of a myriad stars.
—Robert Browning
Our wasted oil unprofitably burns,
Like hidden lamps in old sepulchral urns.
—William Cowper
Burnt like caustic.
—Thomas Hood
Burns, like some absent and impatient youth, to join the object of his warm desire.
—Soame Jenyns
Burns like hate.
—George MacDonald
Burn within me like an evil fire.
—George MacDonald
Burn like the red light of the setting sun.
—T. Buchanan Read
Burn like black stars below the Orient moon.
—Francis S. Saltus
Burn like mines of sulphur.
—William Shakespeare
Burning like molten jewels.
—William Wetmore Story
Burn and bleed
Like that pale princess-priest of Priam’s seed.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Burn as if all the fires of the earth and air
Had laid strong hold upon his flesh and stung
The soul behind it as with a serpent’s tongue.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Burn as that beamless fire which fills the skies
With troubled stars and travailing things of flame.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Burning her like flame
That feeds on flowers in bloom.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Burns like joy.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Burns low as fire wherein no firebrands glow.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Burnt as a living fire as emeralds.
—Alfred Tennyson
Burneth as a flaming fire.
—Old Testament
Burning like the burning of a fire.
—Old Testament
Burns, like a fiery star in the upper air.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Burned like a heated opal.
—Oscar Wilde
Burned like the ruby fire set
In the swinging lamp of a crimson shrine.
—Oscar Wilde