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-BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Matthew Prior
Like leaves, as chance inclin’d,
Those wills were chang’d with every wind.Dauntless as death.As the opening blossom fair.Happy as heroes after battles won.Love, like death, makes all distinction void.Lovely as light.To the mind’s eye things will appear,
At distance through an artful glass,
But bring the flattering objects near,
They’re all a senseless gloomy mass.Ruddy as gold his cheek.Similes are like songs in love;
They much describe; they nothing prove.Soft as yielding air.Straight as the palm tree.Sure as key of lock.White like a young flock,
Coeval, newly shorn, from the clear brook recent, and branching on the sunny rock.
