Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Gather

Gathered like ants.
—Anonymous

Gather like a locust’s crew.
—Lord Byron

Gather like night-dew.
—Lord Byron

Like a morning mist it gathered.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes

Gathers like a tide.
—Christopher Pitt

Gather,
Like flocks of clouds in spring’s delightful weather.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Gathering … As broken breakers rally and roar
The loud wind down that drives off shore.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Gather … like flies in the sun.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings.
—New Testament

Gathered as water spilt on the ground, which cannot be gathered up again.
—Old Testament