Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Seek
Seeking, like a bleating lamb
Left out at night in shutting up the fold.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Seeks as does an old tailor his needle’s eye.
—Dante
As rivers seek the sea,
Much more deep than they,
So my soul seeks Thee
Far away.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti