Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Serene
Serene and ephemeral as a little smiling sun.
—Anonymous
Serene as a star in a bright mist.
—Honoré de Balzac
Serene, like a deep, smooth, and still lake.
—Buddha
Serene as night.
—Lord Byron
Serene … like envoys from the skies.
—Nathaniel Cotton
Serene and calm, as when the Spring
The new-created world began.
—John Dryden
Serene as the dawn.
—Victor Hugo
More serene than Cordelia’s countenance.
—John Keats
Serene as summer in Arcadian hills.
—Charles L. Moore
Serene as a Quaker’s meeting.
—James Ralph
Serene as a winter sunset.
—Bernardin de Saint-Pierre
Serene, as in armour of faith.
—Margaret E. Sangster
Serene and pleased a look as Patience ere put on.
—James Thomson
Serene as light.
—Isaac Watts
Serene as day.
—William Wordsworth