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

Sorrow

Youth’s sorrows, like April showers, are transitory.
—Anonymous

Sorrow for a husband is like pain in the elbow, sharp and short.
—Anonymous

Sorrowful as death.
—Ouida

Sorrow concealed, like an oven stopp’d,
Doth burn the heart to cinders.
—William Shakespeare

Sorrow, like a heavy-hanging bell,
Once set on ringing, with his own weight goes;
Then little strength rings out the doleful knell.
—William Shakespeare

Sorrow, like cloud that flies,
Like a cloud in clearing skies,
Passed away.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne