Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Tenderly

Tenderly, as round the sleeping infant’s feet,
We softly fold the cradle-sheet.
—William Cullen Bryant

Tenderly as lovers may
Who know the breaking dawn will be their wedding day.
—Mary Ainge De Vere

Tenderly as Robin Redbreast covered the dead babes with forest leaves.
—Nathaniel Hawthorne

Tenderly, as a mother might kiss a hot, impulsive child trying to still a restless spirit within.
—Robert Herrick (American)

Tenderly … like the song of the robin in the tree.
—William Dean Howells

Tenderly, like one that leads the blind.
—William. C. Roscoe

Tenderly be led by the nose,
As asses are.
—William Shakespeare

Tenderly as a bee that sips,
Your kisses settle on my lips.
—Arthur Symons