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

Heinrich Heine

A dainty mouth like any crimson rose.

Desolate as a tomb.

Eyes like twin blue stars.

Fair she is as foam-born Venus.

Humming, like bees that are swarming.

Every man who marries is like the Doge who weds the Adriatic sea: he knows not what he may find therein,—treasures, pearls, monsters, unknown storms.

That little mouth is like in this,
The rose-bush that so fair is,
For sly envenomed serpents hiss
In dark leaves where their lair is.

A dainty mouth like a crimson rose.

Vanished like an empty dream.