Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Deep
Deep as the fountains of sleep.
—Anonymous
Deep as the void above.
—Anonymous
Deep as evening red.
—Anonymous
Deep as despair.
—Anonymous
Deep as ever plummet sounded.
—Anonymous
Deep as grief.
—Anonymous
Deep as the North Star.
—Anonymous
Deep as though the globe were split to let the waters through.
—William E. Aytoun
Deep as Heaven’s own luminous blue.
—Philip James Bailey
Deep as death.
—Philip James Bailey
Deep in the heart as meteor stones in earth, dropped from some higher sphere.
—Philip James Bailey
Deep as midnight’s starry treasure.
—Thomas Lovell Beddoes
France kept her old affection as deeply as the sepulchre the corse.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Deep as hell from high heaven.
—Thomas Carlyle
Deep as Tophet, high as heaven.
—Thomas Carlyle
Silence as deep as eternity.
—Thomas Carlyle
Deep as life and death.
—Thomas Carlyle
Deep as the murmurs of the falling floods.
—James Cawthorn
Deep and yet soft, like notes from some long chord responsive to thrilled air.
—George Eliot
Deep as annihilation.
—Thomas Hardy
Sighs as deep as destiny.
—Jean Ingelow
Deep as devils grope.
—Sidney Lanier
Joy as deep as heaven’s blue.
—T. T. Lynch
Deep as that grave in Hell where Cæsar lies.
—Edward Markham
As deep as Pedwell.
—Scottish Proverb
Deep and tender as the blue of a baby’s eye.
—James Whitcomb Riley
Deep as the unfathomed endless sea.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti
Chasms as deep and as drear as the tomb.
—John Ruskin
Deep as hell.
—William Shakespeare
Deep as the sea.
—William Shakespeare
Deep as night and Heaven.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Deep as deep in water sinks a stone.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Deep as music’s heart.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Deep as the clear unsounded sea.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Deep as the deep dim soul of a star.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Deep as the depths unsought
Whence faith’s own hope may redeem us naught.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Deep as the pit of hell.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Deeper than men’s dreams of hell are deep.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Deeper than the green sea’s grass.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Deep as hate.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Deep as the grave.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Deeper than time or space.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
A grief as deep as life or thought.
—Alfred Tennyson
Deep as the shadow of Rome.
—John R. Thompson
Deep as the bottomless pit.
—George Sylvester Viereck
A tone as low and deep as love’s first whisper.
—N. P. Willis
Deeper than the vanities of power, or in vain pomp of glory.
—N. P. Willis