Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Fresh
Fresh as an apple-tree bloom.
—William Allingham
Fresh as May-flowers.
—Anacreon
Fresh as a buttercup.
—Anonymous
Fresh as a cherub.
—Anonymous
Fresh as a flower just blown.
—Anonymous
Fresh as an egg from the farm.
—Anonymous
Fresh as a November chrysanthemum.
—Anonymous
Fresh as a sea breeze.
—Anonymous
Fresh and charming as Hebe.
—Anonymous
Fresh as if she had been born with the morning.
—Anonymous
Fresh as a young head of lettuce.
—Anonymous
Fresh as summer’s grass.
—Anonymous
Fresh as the dawn.
—Anonymous
Fresh as the dewy field.
—Anonymous
Fresh as the firstlings o’ the year.
—Anonymous
Fresh as Fiumicino’s foam.
—Alfred Austin
Fresh and fragrant as a rose.
—Philip James Bailey
Fresh as a sprouting spring upon the hills.
—Philip James Bailey
As fresh as any flower.
—English Ballad
Her face is as fresh as a frosty morning in Autumn.
—Honoré de Balzac
Fresh as a white rosebud.
—Honoré de Balzac
Fresh as dew.
—Honoré de Balzac
Fresh as butter just from the churn.
—J. R. Bartlett’s Dictionary of Americanisms
Fresh, as the floweret opening on the morn.
—James Beattie
Fresher than the day-star.
—R. D. Blackmore
Fresh as from Paradise.
—Robert Browning
Lips to lips
Fresh as the wilding hedge-rose-cup there slips
The dewdrop out of.
—Robert Browning
Fresh as the flow’r amid the sunny showr’s of May.
—Michael Bruce
Fresher than the morning dawn
When rising Phœbus first is seen.
—Robert Burns
Fresh as a nursing mother.
—Lord Byron
Fressh as a rose.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
As fressh as faucon comen out of mewe.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
As fressh as is the brighte someres day.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Fressh as is the monthe of May.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Fresh as sea-born Cythera.
—Hartley Coleridge
Fresh as the foamy surf.
—Eliza Cook
Fresh and as gay
As the fairest and sweetest, that blow
On the beautiful bosom of May.
—William Cowper
All show’d as fresh, and faire, and innocent, as virgins to their lovers’ first survey.
—Sir William Davenant
Fresh as a clover bud.
—Lord De Tabley
Fresh as a lark.
—Charles Dickens
Fresh as butter.
—Charles Dickens
Fresh as a fresh young pear-tree blossoming.
—Austin Dobson
Fresh as primrose buds.
—Edward Dowden
As fresh as flovis that in May up spredis.
—William Dunbar
As fresh as rain drops.
—George Eliot
Fresh as the trickling rainbow in July.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fresh as the wells that stand in natural rock in summer woods or violet-scented grove.
—Frederick William Faber
Fresh as early day.
—Francis Fawkes
Fresh, like the larks, from a dew bath in the daisies.
—S. Gertrude Ford
Fresh as a peach.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Fresh as the May-blown rose.
—Richard Glover
Fresh as a blossom bathed by April rain.
—Paul Hamilton Hayne
Fresh as the breeze blowing over the heather.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fresh as the dews of our prime.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Fresh as April when the breezes blow.
—Richard Monckton Milnes
Fresh and fine as a spring in winter.
—Richard Hovey
Fresh as April’s heaven.
—Victor Hugo
Fresh as a young girl.
—Victor Hugo
Fresh as milk and roses.
—Jean Ingelow
As fresh as the fruit on the tree.
—Henry James
Fresh as the morning.
—Ben Jonson
Fresher than berries of a mountain-tree.
—John Keats
Fresh as Aurora’s blushing morn.
—William King
Freshening as the morning air.
—Charles M. S. McLellan
Fresh as a pippin.
—Theophilus Marzials
Fresh as the drop of dew cradled at morn.
—Gerald Massey
Fresh as the orchard apple.
—George Meredith
Fresh as light from a star just discovered.
—Thomas Moore
Fresh as Spring.
—Coventry Patmore
Fresh as paint.
—Sir Arthur T. Quiller-Couch
Fresh as the welling waters.
—Samuel Rogers
Fresh as dew.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti
Fresh as the sun.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti
Fresh as the tropic rose.
—Charles Sangster
As fresh as a May gowan.
—Sir Walter Scott
Fresh as an old oak.
—Sir Walter Scott
Fresh as a bridegroom.
—William Shakespeare
Fresh as Dian’s visage.
—William Shakespeare
Fresh as morning’s dew distill’d on flowers.
—William Shakespeare
Fresh as flower of May.
—Edmund Spenser
Fresh as flowers in medow greene doe grow.
—Edmund Spenser
Fresh as morning rose.
—Edmund Spenser
Fresh as a four-year-old.
—R. S. Surtees
Fresh as farthing from the mint.
—Jonathan Swift
Fresh as the spirit of sunrise.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fresh as a sea-flower.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Fresh as a man’s recollections of boyhood.
—William Makepeace Thackeray
Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail.
—Alfred Tennyson
Fresh as the foam, new-bathed in Paphian wells.
—Alfred Tennyson
Fresh and ruddy as a parson’s daughter.
—Bonnell Thornton
Fresh as a daisy.
—Leo Tolstoy
Fresh as Eden.
—Henry Vaughan
Fresh as Spring’s earliest violet.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Fresh as the moon.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Fresh as the lovely form of youthful May, when nymphs and graces in the dance unite.
—Christopher Martin Wieland
Fresh as banner bright, unfurl’d to music suddenly.
—William Wordsworth
Fresh as a lark mounting at break of day.
—William Wordsworth