Contents -BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD

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

Weep

Weeps like a walrus o’er the waning moon.
—Anonymous

Wept like a lost child.
—George W. Bagby

Weep like a cut vine-twig.
—Robert Browning

Wept like a baffled child.
—Edward Bulwer-Lytton

Weep like a crocodile.
—Robert Burton

Weepe as dooth a child that is ybete.
—Geoffrey Chaucer

Weep … like a dear innocent child bitterly afflicted.
—Friederich Heinrich Karl, Baron de La Motte-Fouqué

I must seem like a hanging moon, a little waterish for a while.
—Thomas Middleton

Like a fair flower surcharged with dew, she weeps.
—John Milton

I’m weeping like a willow
That droops in leaf and bough.
—George P. Morris

Weep, like a young wench that had buried her grandam.
—William Shakespeare

Weeps like a wench that had shed her milk.
—William Shakespeare