Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Gentle
Gentle as a fawn.
—Irish Ballad
Gentle as a love-sick maid.
—Aphra Behn
Gentle as a turtle-dove.
—R. D. Blackmore
As gentle as the lover’s sighs.
—Claudian
Gentle as the moon.
—Richard Henry Dana (1787–1879)
Gentle and placid as Socrates.
—Alphonse Daudet
Gentle as sleep.
—Lord De Tabley
Gentle as a feather-stroke.
—George Eliot
Gentle as the falling dew.
—Hesiod (Cooke)
Voice gentle as the breeze that plays in the evening among the spices of Sahara.
—Dr. Samuel Johnson
More gentle than the wind in summer.
—John Keats
As gentle an’ soft as the sweet summer air.
—Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
Gentle as truth.
—William James Linton
Gentle as chaines that honor binde.
—Richard Lovelace
Gentle as a sigh love-fraught.
—Evan MacColl
Gentle, loving, kind
Like Mary singing to her mangered child.
—George MacDonald
Gentle as infancy.
—William Thompson Price
Gentle as the cradle-babe.
—William Shakespeare
They are as gentle
As zephyrs blowing below the violet.
—William Shakespeare
Gentyll as faucounOr hauke of the towre.
—John Skelton
Gentle as eve.
—John Taylor
Music that gentler on the spirit lies,Than tir’d eyelids upon tir’d eyes.
—Alfred Tennyson
The queen as soft and gentle, like a moonbeam white and fair.
—Ludwig Uhland
Gentle as an infant child.
—William Wordsworth
Gentle as the morning light.
—William Wordsworth
Gentle as a jay on tree.
—Worlde and the Chylde