Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Steadfast
Steadfast as the steered-by star.
—Alfred Austin
Steadfast as the light of a diamond.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton
Steadfast as the sun.
—Thomas Carlyle
Steadfast as the eternal throne.
—Alice Cary
Steadfast as a wall.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Stands steadfast, like tower which blast of wind can never shake.
—Dante
Steadfast, as the throne of God.
—Aubrey De Vere
Steadfast as a principle.
—John Keats
Steadfast as the pole-star.
—Hannah More
Steadfast as a fixed star.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti
Steadfast as the everlasting rocks.
—Robert Southey
Steadfast as a sea-mew’s wing.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Steadfast as clouds or hours in flight.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne