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-BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
William Ernest Henley
Black as the pit.Bland as a Jesuit.Death and Time, they chime and chime, like bells at sunset falling.Her little face is like a walnut shell
With wrinkling lines.Flashes like the shining soul of a jest.Frank as the call of April birds.Galloping, as with dispatches from the Pit,
Between his hell-bound hounds.Gleams like an angel-market.Glowed like a coal,
In the throat of the furnace.Glows like a kiln.Quiet as a statue.Ride
Like fire on some high errand of the race.The wistful stars
Shine like good memories.Sober as a hymn.Soft as the whisper shut within a shell.Sprang like a wave
In the wind.Thrills
As if the Enchanted Castle at the heart
Of the wood’s dark wonderment
Swung wide his valves, and filled the dim sea-banks
With exquisite visitants.Unending as the river and the stars.