Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Fair
Fair as virtuous friendship: as the candid blush of him who strives with fortune to be just.
—Mark Akenside
Fair as Esther.
—Anonymous
Fair as a friar that is invited to dinner.
—Anonymous
Fair as a saint.
—Anonymous
Fairer than fancy ever feigned.
—Anonymous
Fair as Lady Dove.
—Anonymous
Fair as stars that shine in summer skies.
—Anonymous
Fair as the garden of Shiraz.
—Anonymous
Fair as the glorified isles of the blest.
—Anonymous
Mary is fair as the morning dew.
—Anonymous
Fair as the virgin’s vows.
—Anonymous
Fair as the wild rose.
—Anonymous
Fair as winter lilies.
—Anonymous
Fair as youths by brides caress’d.
—Anonymous
As fair as summer roses.
—Thomas Ashe
Fair as lotus when the morn kisses its opening petals red.
—Ancient Ballad of Hindustan
Fair as the cup of a lily held in a maiden’s hand.
—Eugene Barry
Fair as the floweret opening in the morn.
—James Beattie
Fair as the bud unblasted.
—Beaumont and Fletcher
Fair as the morn.
—Michael Bruce
Fair as the hills of Paradise.
—William Cullen Bryant
Fair as pearls.
—Gottfried A. Bürger
As fair a thing as e’er was form’d of clay.
—Lord Byron
Fair as the crowning rose of the whole wreath.
—Lord Byron
Fair, as the first that fell of womankind.
—Lord Byron
Fair as the forest.
—Alice Cary
Fair as Ambition’s dream, or Beauty’s face.
—Thomas Chatterton
Faire as is the bryghte morwe [morning].
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Faire as is the rose in May.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Fair as Eden’s bowers.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fair, as the bosom of the swan.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fair withal, as spirits are.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Fair as any goddess who sweeps through the Ivory Gate.
—Mortimer Collins
As fair as truth.
—Barry Cornwall
Fair as cygnet’s down.
—Nathaniel Cotton
Fair as light in heaven, or flowers in spring.
—Allan Cunningham
Fair as Spenser’s dream.
—Sydney Dobell
Fair as those old fields we knew.
—Sydney Dobell
Fair as a sculptor’s marble dream.
—Julia C. R. Dorr
Fair as the morning’s snow.
—Ancient Erse
As honor fair.
—William Falconer
As Cynthia fair.
—Francis Fawkes
Fair… as all the flowers of May.
—Francis Fawkes
Fair as the flowers themselves.
—John Fletcher
Fair as Aurora.
—Alice A. Folger
A face as fair as summer skies,
Where many a blush in ambush lies.
—H. B. Freeman
Fair as a young maid asleep beneath new fallen snow.
—Théphile Gautier
Fair as the dawn in the spring time.
—Giacosa and Illica
Fair as Paphos’ brooks.
—Robert Greene
Fair as Helen, Sparta’s pride.
—Arthur Guiterman
Fair as the Spring.
—Walter Harte
Fair as the summer’s evening skies.
—Walter Harte
Fair she is as foam-born Venus.
—Heinrich Heine
Fair, Lady Mary, as a lily in the sun.
—Henry Helford
Fair as Eve in Paradise.
—Robert Herrick
Fair as a god.
—Homer (Pope)
Fair as the new-born star that gilds the morn.
—Homer (Pope)
Fair is she as the dreams young poets weave.
—Thomas Hood
Fair as the wave-bleached lily of the stream.
—Thomas Hood
Fair … as the spotless moon upon the midnight sea.
—Horace
She as fair as any shepherdess
That ever was in mask or Christmas scene.
—William Dean Howells
Fair as a woodland flower.
—Mary Johnston
Fair as some wonder out of fairy land.
—John Keats
Fairer than Phœbe’s sapphire-region’d star.
—John Keats
As fair,
As Sion in her height of pride.
—John Keble
Fair as a flower, and faded just as soon.
—Omar Khayyám
Fair as the sun.
—Charles Kingsley
Fair as bar of gold.
—Rudyard Kipling
Fair as Aphrodite rising from the deep-blue Grecian sea.
—Sigmund Krasinski
Fair as the moonlight.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Fair as original light first from the chaos shot.
—Richard Lovelace
You’re fair and fresh as a morning in May.
—Samuel Lover
Fair as the garden of God.
—Lord Lyttelton
Fair as bride to altar lead.
—Evan MacColl
Fair as a Seraph.
—George Mac-Henry
Fair as the whitest snow on Scythian hills.
—Christopher Marlowe
O, thou art fairer than the evening air,
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
—Christopher Marlowe
Fair as the spirit of the evening star.
—Gerald Massey
Fair as dreams.
—Owen Meredith
She is fair as the spirit of light,
That floats in the ether on high.
—Adam Mickiewicz
Fair as flame.
—Richard Monckton Milnes
Fair as the noon sky.
—John Milton
Fair as Orion.
—James Montgomery
Fair as the rainbow shines through darkening showers.
—James Montgomery
Fair as the Moon’s unclouded light.
—Edward Moore
Your face is as fair and bright
As the foam on the wave in the morning light.
—Lewis Morris
Fair as the lightning thwart the sky,
As sun-dyed snow upon the high
Untrodden heaps of threatening stone
The eagle looks upon alone.
—William Morris
Fair as an angel from the unknown land.
—Dinah Maria Mulock
She is as fair as a peach.
—Miles O’Reilly
Fair he was, like the rainbow of heaven.
—Ossian
Fair as the summer-beauty of the fields.
—Thomas Otway
Fairer than snow on the raven’s back.
—Thomas Otway
Fair as youth and love.
—Sir Joseph Noel Paton
Fair as a musk-willow forest.
—Persian
Fair like the rose, ’midst paling flowers the queen.
—Petrarch
As the opening blossom fair.
—Matthew Prior
Fair, like goddesses.
—François Rabelais
A face as fair as the summer dawn.
—James Whitcomb Riley
Fine and fair as your school-boy sweetheart’s hair.
—James Whitcomb Riley
Fair as a bridal chamber.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti
Fair thou art as moonrise after rain.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti
Fair as the flowers that maidens pluck for an hour’s delight.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Maiden fair as a silvery dream.
—Francis S. Saltus
Fair as the summer.
—Hayden Sands
Fair as the earliest beam of eastern light.
—Sir Walter Scott
Fair as any mother’s child.
—William Shakespeare
Fair as day.
—William Shakespeare
Fair as text B in a copy-book.
—William Shakespeare
Her face as fair as tho’ she had look’d on Paradise, and caught its early beauty.
—William Shakespeare
Fair as breathing marble.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Eyes as fair as star-beams among twilight trees.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fair as the fabulous asphodels.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fairer than any wakened eyes behold.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fair, like stars when the moon is awakened.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Like great god Saturne faire.
—Sir Philip Sidney
As fair as the first beams of the morning.
—Romanian Song
Faire as Phœbus sunne.
—Edmund Spenser
Fair as a fairy.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fair as a field in flower.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fair as all that the world may call most fair, save only the sea’s own face.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fair as any poison-flower
Whose blossom blights the withering bower
Whereon its blasting breath has power.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fair as a star-shaped flower.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fair as dawn.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fair as dreams that die and know not what they were.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fair as even the wakening skies.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fair as flame.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fair as fled foam.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fair as heaven in spring.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fair as hope divines.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fair as life.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fair as peace.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Clean and fair
As sunlight and the flowerful air.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fair as the ambient gold of wall-flowers.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fair as the eyes are fair.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fair as the face of the star-clothed night.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fair as the frondage each fleet year sees fade.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fair as the morning.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fair as the sunbright air.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fair as the sundawn’s flame
Seen when May on her first-born day bids earth exult in her radiant name.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fair as the world’s old faith of flowers.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fair as thine eye’s beam
Hidden and shown in heaven.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fair as thought could dream.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fair as youth.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fair as some Arcadian dell.
—Bayard Taylor
Fair as the last star that leaves the morning air.
—Bayard Taylor
Fair as the loveliest landscape of pastoral England.
—Bayard Taylor
Fairer than Rachel by the palmy well,
Fairer than Ruth among the fields of corn.
—Alfred Tennyson
Fair as the moon.
—Old Testament
Fair as the daughters of Job.
—Old Testament
Fair as lily leaves.
—John T. Trowbridge
Fair as the day that bodes as fair a morrow.
—August von Platen
Fair as a statue of marble.
—Michael Vörösmarty
Fair as a gorgeous fabric of the East.
—Michael Vörösmarty
Fair as the primrose mead, or blushing rose.
—Thomas Warton
Fair as in Mirza’s Bagdad dream.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Fair
As Pison was to Eden’s pair.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Fairer than the day, or the flowery meads in May.
—George Withers
Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.
—William Wordsworth
Fair as beams of light.
—Thomas Yalden