Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Rise
Rises and falls like a swan upon roaring water.
—Anonymous
Rise as a vapor.
—Anonymous
Rose like a phœnix, from the fires of time.
—Anonymous
Rose like sunlight from the sea.
—Anonymous
Rise like the white clouds on April skies.
—Anonymous
Rising like springs ingathered.
—R. D. Blackmore
Rising like water-columns from the sea.
—Lord Byron
Joy rises in me, like a summer’s morn.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Rose like a kite.
—William Cowper
Rose like a bewildering strain of oriental music.
—Frederick William Faber
Rise out of the hearth, like the garden of Hesperides.
—Edward Gibbon
Rising like pillared fire.
—Arthur Henry Hallam
Rising in the middle of it like a lump of self-raising dough.
—O. Henry
Rising in the air like eagle on the wing.
—Thomas Hood
Rose like dim fancies when a dream begins.
—Thomas Hood
Rising like Aphrodite from the wave.
—Charles Kingsley
Rose red as a beacon the wind had upblown.
—Sidney Lanier
Rising like the ruined arch of some aerial aqueduct.
—Henry W. Longfellow
Rose like an exhalation.
—John Milton
He (Burke) rose like a rocket, he fell like a stick.
—Thomas Paine
Rise from the ground like feather’d Mercury.
—William Shakespeare
Rises as ocean at the enchantment of the moon.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley
Rising as a shoreward sea.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Rose like dust before the whirlwind’s force.
—Bayard Taylor
Rise up as a great lion.
—Old Testament
True to rise as leaves on Autumn’s whirlwind borne.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Rise,
Like spring-doves from the startled wood.
—John Greenleaf Whittier