Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Glad
Glad as one would give me a crown Anonymous
Glad as a fly.
—Arabian Nights
Every heart was glad,
As if the taxes were abolished.
—Thomas Lovell Beddoes
Glad as singing-birds.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
As glad as April skies.
—Eliza Cook
Glad as children come from school.
—George Gascoigne
As glad as fish that were but lately caught
And straight again were cast into the pool.
—George Gascoigne
Glad as the clay-red
Blaring of battle-horns.
—Richard Hovey
Glad as the bird up the summer vault singing.
—E. M. Kelly
Glad as the skylark’s earliest song.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
His face as glad as dawn.
—Fiona Macleod
Glad, like the young spring’s earliest rose.
—James Clarence Mangan
Glad as a blossoming tree.
—Edwin Markham
Glad of life as leaves in spring.
—Josephine P. Peabody
Glad as a fowl of a fair day.
—English Proverb
Glad as brief delay.
—Sir Walter Scott
Glad as a bird whose flight is impelled and sustained by love.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Glad as the golden spring to greet
Its first live leaflet’s play.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Glad as a soul in pain, who hears from heaven
The angels singing of his sins forgiven.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
His voice as glad as April bird’s.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Glad as fruition.
—C. P. Wilson
Glad as gardens.
—John Wilson