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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