Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Glow (Verb)
Her eye balls … glowed like flaming carbuncles.
—William H. Ainsworth
Glow like a blacksmith’s forge.
—Anonymous
Glowing like molten iron.
—Anonymous
Glow like the gates of the New Jerusalem.
—Anonymous
Glow like the golden fleece.
—Anonymous
Glow like the vernal grass.
—Anonymous
Glow and glimmer soft as ocean blush of Indian shells.
—Mathilde Blind
Cheeks glow red as tomatoes.
—Robert Browning
Glowing in the green, like flakes of fire.
—William Cullen Bryant
Glow,
As if her veins ran lightning.
—Lord Byron
Aglow, like fruit when it colors.
—William Canton
Glow … like a pool of flaming blood.
—Joseph Conrad
Glowing like sunset-clouds upon the borders of the Tappan-Zee.
—Frederick S. Cozzens
Glows like a painter’s palette.
—T. W. H. Crosland
Glows as some rain-burnished rose.
—Lord De Tabley
Glowed like June.
—Sir Charles Gavan Duffy
Glow like adoration.
—Ebenezer Elliott
Blush and glow like angel’s wings.
—Ebenezer Elliott
Glow like webs of golden tissue in the sun.
—Frederick William Faber
Glow like twin roses in the verdant bush.
—Francis Fawkes
Glowin’ like a circus poster.
—Sewell Ford
Glowing like a bride robed to meet the bridal hour.
—S. Gertrude Ford
Glow … like Laura’s cheek when blushes rise.
—John Gay
I glow as with new wine.
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Glowed like a household fire.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne
Glows like a red flame in the dark.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne
Glowed like sunshine.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne
Glowed like a coal,
In the throat of the furnace.
—William Ernest Henley
Glows like a kiln.
—William Ernest Henley
Soft and glowing as a summer’s eve.
—Henrik Hertz
Glow like a queen’s missal.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Glowed like the morn beneath Aurora’s wings.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Glows like the old prophets.
—Josiah Gilbert Holland
Glow like fiery meteors.
—Homer (Pope)
Golden glow,
Like Iris just bedabbled in her bow.
—Thomas Hood
Glow like a self-enkindled star.
—Lemuel Hopkins
Glows, like a peak at dawn.
—Victor Hugo
Glow like flashing seas of green.
—Helen Hunt Jackson
Glow
Like the northern lights on snow.
—John Keats
Glows like the diamond in the presence of radium.
—Andrew Lang
Glowed like angels in the sun.
—Gerald Massey
Glowed like a watch fire in the Wilderness.
—Gerald Massey
Glowing imperial as the sun-toucht rose.
—Gerald Massey
Glowing like anthracite coal.
—Donald G. Mitchell
Glowed like a torch amid creation’s tomb.
—James Montgomery
In youthful beauty glows,
Like Phœbus, when he bends to cast
His beams upon a rose.
—Thomas Moore
Glowed like the arbutus or beech of the Umbrian hills.
—John Henry Newman
Glow like paint on death’s shrunk cheek.
—Miles O’Reilly
Jewels … glowing like sunbeams.
—Ouida
The Court, it glows, and shines like rotten wood.
—Sir Walter Raleigh
Glows like a golden group of buttercups.
—T. Buchanan Read
Glowed, like great archangels moving slow
On some celestial road.
—T. Buchanan Read
Her white forehead glowed like a rose.
—Charles Reade
Glow like a flower.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti
Glowed like the first splendors of the morn.
—José Selgas
Glowed like plated Mars.
—William Shakespeare
Glows like solid amethyst.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Glowing like the vital morn.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Glow
As a heart burns with some divine thing done.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Glow … like the sunset’s flush on a field of snow.
—Bayard Taylor
Glows, like baker’s oven.
—William Tennant
Glowed as a cloud worn thin.
—Walter Thornbury
Glow like a great pearl.
—John. C. Van Dyke
With beauty glows like that of Venus, where she rose naked in blushing charms from Ocean’s hoary wave.
—Joseph Warton