Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Free
Free,
As Thames and Seine, St. Lawrence, Nile, and Ganges,
Mingled in one illimitable sea.
—Grant Allen
Free as a fly.
—Anonymous
Free as a gift.
—Anonymous
Free as a wood sawer.
—Anonymous
Free as egg-nog on Christmas Eve.
—Anonymous
Free as the diamond is free from alloy.
—Anonymous
Free as the sybil’s leaves of yore.
—Anonymous
Free as thought.
—Anonymous
Free as a hurricane.
—Anonymous
Free as a mountain goat.
—Anonymous
As free from artifice as is the dimple in childhood’s cheek.
—Alfred Austin
Free as Phœbus.
—Beaumont and Fletcher
Free as wanton winds.
—Aphra Behn
Free, as a young calf, from sorrow.
—Aphra Behn
Free as whispering air.
—Aphra Behn
Free as bird on branch, just as ready to fly east as west.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Free as light.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Free as a babe from cheating.
—Robert Browning
Free as cloud and sunbeam are.
—Robert Browning
Free and winding as a poet’s thought through his verse.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Free and graceful … like Dian when the bounding hart she tracks through the morning dew.
—Chæremon
Free as the wind.
—Thomas Chatterton
Free as the light and air.
—Charles Churchill
Free as water.
—Will Levington Comfort
Free as the sunbeams on the chainless air.
—Robert T. Conrad
Free-handed as a harlot.
—John Davidson
Free as a liberated ghost.
—Sydney Dobell
Free and noble as clear poesy.
—Michael Drayton
Free as nature first made man.
—John Dryden
Free as an Arab.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Free as a mountain bird.
—Sir William Schwenk Gilbert
Free as a tethered ass.
—Sir William Schwenk Gilbert
Free as the hawk.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Smiling free, as rose to summer air.
—Dora Greenwell
Free as the soul.
—Edward Hake
Free, like one who trails the plough.
—Samuel Hoffenstein
Good and free
As when poor Eve was innocent.
—Jean Ingelow
Free as an eagle.
—John Keats
Free as the sky-searching lark.
—John Keats
Free as the breeze.
—Francis Scott Key
More divinely free
Than Pacific’s boundless sea.
—Frederic L. Knowles
Free as ambient air.
—Sir Roger L’Estrange
Free as the waters of life.
—Alfred Henry Lewis
Free as a king.
—Thomas Lodge
Free as warmth in summer’s weather.
—Charles Mackay
Free as breezes be on Nature’s velvet flooring.
—Eric Mackay
Free as the thought that ye canna confine.
—David Macbeth Moir
Free as Severn’s waves, that spring to bless
Their parent hills.
—James Montgomery
Free as the fetterless wind.
—Thomas Moore
Free as first innocence.
—Thomas Otway
Free as mountain winds.
—William Shakespeare
Freer than a jailer.
—William Shakespeare
Free in spirit as the mountain.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Free from flaw or stain as diamond from the mine.
—Douglas B. W. Sladen
Free,
As the stars’ mountain-tops be,
As the pearl, in the depths of the sea,
From the portionless king that wears it.
—Edmund Clarence Stedman
Free
As birds that breast and brave the sea.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Free as the circling sea.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Free as heaven.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Free-born as winds and stars and waves are free.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Freer than birds or dreams are free.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Free as song.
—Bayard Taylor
As free as the eagle’s wing.
—Henry D. Thoreau
Free as fishing is.
—Izaak Walton
Free as Emperors.
—William Ward
Free as our rivers are
Ocean-ward going.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Free to rise
As leaves on Autumn’s whirlwind borne.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Free as India’s leopard.
—N. P. Willis
Free as the soul of the fragrant wine.
—William Winter
Free as the Sun.
—William Wordsworth
Free as our desires.
—William Wordsworth