Words of Praise
Words of Praise
- For you, words are like birds. They sing. They fly —Helen Hudson
The character who thus praises a friend’s gift with words describes himself as someone for whom “Words are worms.”
- (My wife … always) looks like a barrel full of Stardust —Moss Hart
- My doll is as dainty as a sparrow —Oscar Hammerstein II, from lyric for South Pacific
The lyric heaps simile upon simile with “Where she’s narrow, she’s as narrow as an arrow.”
- My sister, my spouse, is a secret spring —John Hall Wheelock
This is the first line and leitmotif of a poem entitled An Old Song.
- She seemed like a yellow sunrise on mountain tops —O. Henry
- She shines against the backdrop of this provincial place like a jewel on a beggar’s coat. She is like the moon forgotten by the pale sky of the day. She is like a butterfly over a plain of snow —Milan Kundera
- When I walk with you I feel as if I had a flower in my buttonhole —William Makepeace Thackeray
- When she passed it seemed like the ceasing of exquisite music —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- When you came, you were like red wine and honey … now you are like morning bread, smooth and pleasant —Amy Lowell
- When you get up, it’s like the flag being raised. I want to pledge allegiance —John Updike
- You’re a girl like candy —Clifford Odets
- You’re beautiful, like a May fly —Ernest Hemingway to Mary Welsh before she became Mrs. Hemingway
- You’re perfect as a textbook example —Sharon Olds
Poet Olds uses the simile in a poem dedicated to her father and aptly entitled The Ideal Father.
- Your lips taste like paradise —Isaac Bashevis Singer
Similes Dictionary, 1st Edition. © 1988 The Gale Group, Inc. All rights reserved.