Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Droop
Droops like a broken lily.
—Anonymous
Droop, like to bees belated in the rain.
—Alfred Austin
Shee droopeth in her minde,
As, nipt by an ungracious winde,
Dothe some faire lillye flowre.
—English Ballad
Drooping like a falling blossom.
—Honoré de Balzac
She drooped like a lily bedewed in the valley.
—Patrick Brontë
Droop like wreaths of snow.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Droop’d as the willow when no winds can breathe.
—Lord Byron
Droops like some unpitied flower that the rain-fall washes down.
—Alice Cary
She drooped like a blossom bent by the wind.
—Edmondo de Amicis
Droops, like a rose, surcharged with morning dew.
—John Dryden
Drooping like plumes.
—Alexandre Dumas, père
The maidens droop, like meadow-grass when mown.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Drooping like Hyacinthus beneath the blow of the quoit.
—Charles Kingsley
Drooped like a lily tired
That lolls upon the stalk.
—Rudyard Kipling
Drooping like a rose rain-laden.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Drooped like a yacht with idle sails struck by a sudden blast, that dips them in the salt.
—George Meredith
Drooping like crystals in the gulf of time.
—George Meredith
Droops like a flower.
—Barry Pain
Droop like the trees in October.
—James Puckle
Droop, like unfolded wings half spread for flight.
—T. Buchanan Read
Droop like a shower-beaten flower.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Droops … like over-ripen’d corn
Hanging the head of Ceres’ plenteous load.
—William Shakespeare
Drooping like honny dew.
—Edmund Spenser
As a vine droops, when by divorce remov’d from the embraces of the elm she lov’d.
—George Stepney
Drooped
Like a flower in the frost.
—Celia Thaxter
Drooping like a dew-laden lily.
—Martin Farquhar Tupper
Adroop like a rained-on fowl.
—John Greenleaf Whittier