Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Fleeting
Light and fleeting as a dream of night lost in garish day.
—Æschylus
Fleeting as a shade.
—Anonymous
Fleeting as joy of youth.
—Edwin Arnold
Fleeting like feathers in the winde alofte.
—George Gascoigne
As fleeting as April sunshine.
—Gerhart Hauptmann
Fleeting
As bubbles that swim on the beaker’s brim
And break on the lips while meeting.
—Charles Fenno Hoffman
Fleeting as a passing sigh.
—Sigmund Krasinski
Fleeting as air.
—Jonathan Swift
Fleeting like a beam of light.
—Alfred Tennyson
Fleeting as the bow in the clouds.
—Martin Farquhar Tupper
A thing as fleeting as the thin sea-foam.
—George Sylvester Viereck
Fleeting as the wings of sleep.
—Virgil
Fleeting as health or beauty.
—William Wordsworth