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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Bright
 
  Bright as fair sunshine after winter’s storms.
            —Æschylus		  1
  Bright as a blister.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Bright as a dollar.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Bright as a new penny.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Bright as a pewter pot.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Bright as at Creation’s day.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Bright as fairies that in a sunbeam dance.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Bright as Japanese bronze.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Bright as new silver.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Bright as saucepans.
            —Anonymous		  10
  Bright as Sharon’s rose.
            —Anonymous		  11
  Bright as sunshine on the sea.
            —Anonymous		  12
  Bright as the captain’s cabin of a man-of-war.
            —Anonymous		  13
  Bright was her soul as Dian’s crest.
            —Anonymous		  14
  Bright as fullest moon in blackest air.
            —Arabian Nights		  15
  Bright as though a moon of the fourteenth night.
            —Arabian Nights		  16
  Bright as a beach in the moonlight.
            —Alfred Austin		  17
  Bright as the great stream of stars which flows through heaven.
            —Philip James Bailey		  18
  Bright like night with stars.
            —Philip James Bailey		  19
  Bright, like river gold.
            —Philip James Bailey		  20
  Bright as midnight’s brightest eyes.
            —Thomas Lovell Beddoes		  21
  Bright, as Moerice-Queens in June.
            —A. H. Beesly		  22
                Bright within
As when from the sky there shines unclouded heaven’s candle.
            —Beowulf		  23
  Bright as an iceberg.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  24
  Brighter than the sun through wheat.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  25
  As bright as the waves of a rill.
            —George H. Boker		  26
  Bright as the rippling ocean in sunshine.
            —Robert Bridges (English)		  27
  Bright as icicles about a laurel-tree.
            —Maria G. Brooks		  28
  Bright as Paphia’s eyes.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  29
  Bright, like a flash of sunlight.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  30
  Bright as the bow that spans the morn.
            —Thomas Campbell		  31
  Bright as day.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  32
  Bright as stars in winter.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  33
As rody and bright as doth the yonge sonne
That in the ram is foure degrees ronne.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  34
  Bright as joy.
            —Hartley Coleridge		  35
Bright as the moon she shone, with silver light,
And charmed his sense with wonder and delight.
            —William Congreve		  36
  Bright as truth.
            —Barry Cornwall		  37
  Bright as orient morn.
            —William Cowper		  38
  Bright as innocence.
            —John Day		  39
  Bright as a flame.
            —Daniel Defoe		  40
  Bright as sunset.
            —Lord De Tabley		  41
  Bright as Apollo’s breastplate.
            —Aubrey De Vere		  42
  Bright as May-day’s morn.
            —Aubrey De Vere		  43
  Bright as the pastures of the sun.
            —Aubrey De Vere		  44
  Shone as bright as sea-foam sparkling on a moonlit night.
            —Aubrey De Vere		  45
  Bright as Heav’n.
            —Wentworth Dillon		  46
  Bright and steady as a sunbeam.
            —Dr. John Doran		  47
  Bricht as chrysolite.
            —Gawain Douglas		  48
  Bright as goodness.
            —John Dryden		  49
  Bright as Lucifer.
            —William Dunbar		  50
Bright and barren as the sea,
Bare of sorrow, bare of glee.
            —Frederick William Faber		  51
  Bright … as all the flowers of May.
            —Francis Fawkes		  52
  Bright as Phœbus.
            —Francis Fawkes		  53
  Bright as live coals in the gloom.
            —Gustave Flaubert		  54
  Bright as the breaking east.
            —John Fletcher		  55
  Bright as any star in heaven.
            —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe		  56
  Bright as at creation’s day.
            —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe		  57
  Bright as before the day-star will appear.
            —James Hammond		  58
  Bright as the visions of youth.
            —Thomas Kibble Hervey		  59
  Bright as the jewels of the seven-starr’d crown.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  60
                Bright
As the resplendent cactus of the night
That floods the gloom with fragrance and with light.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  61
  Bright as noon in a conservatory of smoked glass.
            —Ernest William Hornung		  62
  Bright as a beacon.
            —Victor Hugo		  63
                Bright,
Most like a fleet of stars that southing go.
            —Jean Ingelow		  64
  Brycht as gold.
            —James the First		  65
  Bright as ruddy meteors through the sky.
            —Robert Jephson		  66
  Bright as the lily of the vale.
            —Sir William Jones		  67
  Bright as the bow of Iris.
            —John Keats		  68
  Bright as the humming-bird’s green diadem.
            —John Keats		  69
  Bright as the gold-sparks that glisten and quiver at morning or eve, on the breast of the river.
            —E. M. Kelly		  70
  Bright as an opium-eater’s dream.
            —Charles Kingsley		  71
  Bright as Hope’s first smile.
            —Letitia Elizabeth Landon		  72
  Bright as autumn’s fleecy clouds with golden glittering lightning decked.
            —Lays of Ancient India		  73
  Bright as a button.
            —Vincent Stuckey Lean (Collectanea)		  74
  Bright, like a fire-flash that crosses the depth of the night.
            —Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu		  75
  Bright as living coal.
            —Camille Lemonnier		  76
  Bright as the argent-horned mornes.
            —Richard Lovelace		  77
  Bright as the ruby’s blaze.
            —Samuel Lover		  78
  As bright as glow-worms in the night.
            —John Lyly		  79
  Bright as the sunbeam of the morning.
            —Evan MacColl		  80
  Bright as musky moss-rose summer’s sun.
            —George Mac-Henry		  81
  Bright as the dimpled smiles that spring enwreath.
            —George Mac-Henry		  82
  As bright as dewdrops in the sun.
            —Charles Mackay		  83
  Bright like the moon when the stars are dimm’d with her blaze.
            —Ewen Maclachan		  84
  Bright as the sunbeam’s light.
            —Denis Florence McCarthy		  85
  Bright as new pottery.
            —Maurice Maeterlinck		  86
  Bright as the Burning Bush of Moses.
            —James. C. Mangan		  87
  Bright as beams of Paradise.
            —Mary E. Mannix		  88
                Orange bright,
Like golden lamps in a green night.
            —Andrew Marvell		  89
  Bright as orb that gives the day.
            —William Mason		  90
  Rose-bright as a star dipped in sunset.
            —Owen Meredith		  91
  As bright as a spot of June day sunshine on the grass.
            —Donald G. Mitchell		  92
  Bright as Minerva’s yellow hair.
            —Thomas Moore		  93
  Bright, like common things, glorified in love’s light.
            —Dinah Maria Mulock		  94
  Bright as an angel new dropt from the sky.
            —Thomas Parnell		  95
  Bright, as from blessed place.
            —Stephen Phillips		  96
  Bright as the star of morn.
            —Robert Pollok		  97
  Bright as the rising sun, in summer’s day.
            —Alexander Pope		  98
  Bright as the star that fires autumnal skies.
            —Alexander Pope		  99
  Bright, as visions of expiring maids.
            —Alexander Pope		  100
                Bright
As golden morning’s flashing light.
            —W. H. Prideaux		  101
  Bright as the sun.
            —François Rabelais		  102
  Bright as the crimson glow when love first sends a missive to a maiden.
            —C. D. Raymer		  103
  Bright as a cloud in the sunset air.
            —T. Buchanan Read		  104
  Bright as an opening rose fresh with dew.
            —Charles Reade		  105
  Bright as the sunset’s glow.
            —Laura E. Richards		  106
  Bright as the light of her glorious eyes.
            —James Whitcomb Riley		  107
  His smile as bright as the midst of May when the truce-bird pipes.
            —James Whitcomb Riley		  108
  As bright as the morning sun.
            —James Whitcomb Riley		  109
  Bright as the golden poppy is that the beach breeds for the surf to kiss.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  110
  Bright as a new bell.
            —W. Clark Russell		  111
  Bright as all between cloudless skies and windless streams.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  112
  Bright as Spring.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  113
Bright as are the Heavens that lie
Illumed by stars at night.
            —Blanche Shoemaker		  114
  As bright … as the vestal fire.
            —Christopher Smart		  115
  Bright as mountain snow.
            —Robert Southey		  116
  Bright as the summer lightning when it spreads its glory o’er the midnight heaven.
            —Robert Southey		  117
  Bright as doth the morning starre appeare.
            —Edmund Spenser		  118
  Bright, like twinckling starres.
            —Edmund Spenser		  119
  Bright as a rose new blown.
            —Timothy Daniel Sullivan		  120
  Bright as an angel.
            —Jonathan Swift		  121
  Bright as a dew-drop engilt of the sun on the sedge.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  122
  Bright as all above.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  123
  Bright as a warrior’s belt.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  124
  Bright as burns at sunrise, heaven’s own.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  125
  Song bright as heaven above the mounting bird.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  126
  Bright as heaven’s bare brow with hope of gifts withholden.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  127
  Bright as hell-fire.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  128
  Bright as hope.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  129
  Bright as Maytime.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  130
  Bright as mercy.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  131
  Bright as the kindling dews when the dawn begins.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  132
  Bright as the night is dark on the world.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  133
  Bright as though death’s dim sunrise thrilled it there and life re-risen took comfort.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  134
  Bright like spring with flower-soft wealth of branching tracery.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  135
  Brighter than joy’s own tears.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  136
  Bloom as bright as opening moon.
            —Bayard Taylor		  137
  Bright as light.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  138
  Bright and light as the crest of a peacock.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  139
  Bright as the eyes of angels and as pure.
            —William Thomson		  140
                Shine bright,
As sun-showers at the break of day.
            —Henry D. Thoreau		  141
  Bright as a facet-cut diamond scattering light.
            —Martin Farquhar Tupper		  142
  Bright as the seraphim pointing to eternity.
            —Joseph Turnley		  143
  Bright as the blessings of heaven.
            —Michael Vörösmarty		  144
  Bright as the promise of a cloudless day.
            —C. P. Wilson		  145
Bright as a sunbeam sleeping till a shower
Brush it away, or cloud pass over it.
            —William Wordsworth		  146
  Bright as spring.
            —William Wordsworth		  147
    Bright as the glimpses of eternity,
To saints accorded in their mortal hour.
            —William Wordsworth		  148
  Bright as the dazzling snow.
            —William Wordsworth		  149
  As a rainbow bright.
            —Theodore Wratislaw		  150
  Bright as Phebus’ sphere.
            —Sir Thomas Wyatt		  151
  Shining bright as a new lance.
            —William Butler Yeats		  152
 
 
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