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

Joyful

Joyful as flowers when they are filled to the brim with dew.
—Anonymous

Joyful as a nest.
—Anonymous

Joyful as a fly.
—Arabian Nights

Joyful as the back of a gravestone.
—G. F. Northall (Folk Phrases)

Joyfully as the shepherd bears a strayed lamb to the fold.
—Charles Reade

Joyful as the light.
—Christina Gabriel Rossetti

Joyful as the sea.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne