| Loathe worse than a lepers mouth.|| 1|
| Adorable as is nothing save a child.|| 2|
| Adrift as a pinnace in peril.|| 3|
|Adrift as a spirit in doubt that dissembles|
Still with itself, being sick of division and dimmed by dismay.
| Ageless as the sun.|| 5|
| Thy lips are aglow|
As a lovers that kindle with kissing.
| Alive as a vision of life to be.|| 7|
| Arise as the spring out of tempest and snow.|| 8|
| Aspire, as all the seas life toward the sun.|| 9|
| Aspires as a flame.|| 10|
| Babble like one mad with wine.|| 11|
| Bare as a beggar.|| 12|
| Bare as naked daylight.|| 13|
| Bare as shame.|| 14|
| Barren as crime.|| 15|
| Beard like foam swept off the broad blown sea.|| 16|
|Bereft as a man whom bitter time bereaves|
Of blossom at once and hope of garnered sheaves,
Of April at once and August.
| Bites like fire.|| 18|
| Bitter as a tear.|| 19|
| Bitter as harsh-lipped spring.|| 20|
| Bitter as the breaking down of love.|| 21|
| Thy speech is bitterer than the sea.|| 22|
| Bitter like blood.|| 23|
| Her heart within|
Burnt bitter like an aftertaste of sin
To one whose memory drinks and loathes the lee
Of shame or sorrow deeper than the sea.
| Black as the womb of darkness.|| 25|
| Black as crushed worms that sicken in the sense.|| 26|
| Black as thunderous night.|| 27|
| As midnight black.|| 28|
| Black as flameless brand.|| 29|
| Blind and stark as though the snows made numb all sense within it.|| 30|
| Blind as a pilot beaten blind with foam.|| 31|
| Blind as glass.|| 32|
| Blind as grief.|| 33|
| Blind as the night.|| 34|
| Blind and vain|
As rain-stars blurred and marred by rain
To wanderers on a moonless main
Where night and day seem dead.
| Blither than Springs when her flowerful tresses|
Shake forth sunlight and shine with rain.
| Bloomed, as new life might in a bloodless face.|| 37|
| Blue as plague.|| 38|
|Blurred like a lamps that when the night drops dead|
|Blushed as with bloodless passion, and its hue|
Was as the life and love of hearts on flame.
| Fast bound and free,|
As all the world is girdled with the sea.
| Fast bound as a frost-bound water.|| 42|
| Bound as the sun to the worlds wheel.|| 43|
Like as thralls with links of iron fast in bonds of doom.
| Bowed like a flowering weed when Mays wind heaves the reed-bed the stream kisses.|| 45|
| Bowed down as briars or palms|
Even at the breathless blast as of a breeze
Fulfilled with clamour and clangour and storms of psalms.
| Brave as winds that brave the sea.|| 47|
Like jarring steel on ruining walls.
| Break forth as laughter on lips that said nought till the pulse in them beat loves march.|| 49|
| Breasts like spring.|| 50|
As March breathes back the spirit of winter.
|Breathless as the deer|
Driven hard to bay.
| Brief as a broken song.|| 53|
| Bright as a dew-drop engilt of the sun on the sedge.|| 54|
| Bright as all above.|| 55|
| Bright as a warriors belt.|| 56|
| Bright as burns at sunrise, heavens own.|| 57|
| Song bright as heaven above the mounting bird.|| 58|
| Bright as heavens bare brow with hope of gifts withholden.|| 59|
| Bright as hell-fire.|| 60|
| Bright as hope.|| 61|
| Bright as Maytime.|| 62|
| Bright as mercy.|| 63|
| Bright as the kindling dews when the dawn begins.|| 64|
| Bright as the night is dark on the world.|| 65|
| Bright as though deaths dim sunrise thrilled it there and life re-risen took comfort.|| 66|
| Bright like spring with flower-soft wealth of branching tracery.|| 67|
| Brighter than joys own tears.|| 68|
As a forest with birds.
| Brittle as glass that breaks with a touch.|| 70|
| As twilight brown.|| 71|
| Burn and bleed|
Like that pale princess-priest of Priams seed.
|Burn as if all the fires of the earth and air|
Had laid strong hold upon his flesh and stung
The soul behind it as with a serpents tongue.
|Burn as that beamless fire which fills the skies|
With troubled stars and travailing things of flame.
|Burning her like flame|
That feeds on flowers in bloom.
| Burns like joy.|| 76|
| Burns low as fire wherein no firebrands glow.|| 77|
| Changed as a cloud in the night.|| 78|
| Chatter like sick flies.|| 79|
| Clamorous like as wave to wave at sea.|| 80|
| Clean of cloud|
As though days heart were proud
And heavens were glad.
| Clear and fair as sunlight and the flowerful air.|| 82|
| Clear as a childs own laughter.|| 83|
| Clear as heaven of the toils of time.|| 84|
| As clear as love.|| 85|
| Clear as mirth.|| 86|
| Clear as night beholds her crowning seven.|| 87|
| Clear as righteousness.|| 88|
| Soul as clear as sunlit dew.|| 89|
|Clear as the closest seen and kindly star|
That marries morn and even and winter and spring with one loves golden ring.
| Clear as the cloudless hour.|| 91|
| Clear as the flame from the pyres of the dead.|| 92|
| Clear as the plume of a bright black bird.|| 93|
| Clear as the tocsin from the steeple.|| 94|
| Clear as thy songs words or the live suns light.|| 95|
| Clove as a ploughshare cleaves the field.|| 96|
| Cold as blight of dew.|| 97|
| Cold as
| Cold as the cast-off garb that is cold as clay.|| 99|
|Grew cold as a winter wave|
In the wind from a wide-mouthed grave,
As a gulf wide open to swallow
The light that the world held dear.
| Cold as fears.|| 101|
| Cold as rains in autumn.|| 102|
| Coloured as the moon.|| 103|
| Confused as a soul heavy-laden with trouble that will not depart.|| 104|
| Crowned, as day crowned the dawn-enkindled wave.|| 105|
| Cruel as love or life.|| 106|
| Crumble as a crown,|
Till Cæsar driven to lair and hounded Pope
Reel breathless and drop heartless out of hope.
| Dark as a cloud that the moon turns bright.|| 108|
| Dark as fate.|| 109|
| Dark as fear.|| 110|
| Dark in her sight|
As her measureless measure of shadowless pleasure was bright.
| Dark as the heart of time.|| 112|
| Galleons dark as the helmsmans bark of old that ferried to hell the dead.|| 113|
| Dark as the sire that begat her, Despair.|| 114|
| More dark than the dead worlds tomb.|| 115|
| Darkened as one that wastes by sorcerous art and knows not whence it withers.|| 116|
| Dark as a lands decline.|| 117|
| Silent dark as shame.|| 118|
| Dead as night when stars wax dim.|| 119|
|Dead as dreams of days that were|
Before the new-born world lay bare
In heavens wide eye.
| Dead as the carvers figured throng.|| 121|
| Dead as the dawns grey dew|
At high midnoon of the mounting day that mocks the might of the dawn it slew.
| Dead as yesterday.|| 123|
| Deaf as fire.|| 124|
| Deathless as love.|| 125|
| Deep as deep in water sinks a stone.|| 126|
| Deep as musics heart.|| 127|
| Deep as the clear unsounded sea.|| 128|
| Deep as the deep dim soul of a star.|| 129|
| Deep as the depths unsought|
Whence faiths own hope may redeem us naught.
| Deep as the pit of hell.|| 131|
| Deeper than mens dreams of hell are deep.|| 132|
| Deeper than the green seas grass.|| 133|
| Deep as hate.|| 134|
| Deep as the grave.|| 135|
| Deeper than time or space.|| 136|
| Hold delight as grape-flowers hold their wine.|| 137|
| Delight as the winds in the billow.|| 138|
| Delight as a wave in the wind.|| 139|
| Delight as in freedom won.|| 140|
| Dense as the fumes of ascending hell.|| 141|
| Dense as the walls that fence the secret darkness of unknown time.|| 142|
| Dense as darkness.|| 143|
| Dies as dreams that die with the sleep they feed.|| 144|
|As a star feels the sun and falters,|
Touched to death by diviner eyes
As on the old gods untended altars
The old fire of withered worship dies.
| Die as a leaf that dies in a day.|| 146|
| Different as dark eyes from golden hair.|| 147|
| Dire as the face disfeatured of a dream.|| 148|
|And flesh from bone divides without a pang|
As dew from flower-bell drips.
| Divine as dreams lit by fire of appeased desire which sounds the secret of all that seems.|| 150|
| Draped round her pallid brow like seaweed on a clam.|| 151|
| Dreamy like dim skies.|| 152|
Like foam or sand Past swamp and sallow.
Like mists before the blasts of dawn.
As foam before the wind that wakes
With the all-awakening sun, and breaks
Strong ships that rue the mirth it makes
When grace to slay is given.
| Drop as a leaf drops dead.|| 156|
| Dropping like flies, devoured|
By winter as if by fire, starved, frozen, blind,
Maimed, mad with torment, dying in hell.
| Dull as the dead fume of a fallen fire.|| 158|
| Dumb as a dream.|| 159|
| Flapping ears like water-flags.|| 160|
| At ease|
As a flower of the springtime of corn.
| Eat up like fire the ashen autumn days.|| 162|
| Ebb like hopes that wither.|| 163|
| Ecstatic and inviolate as the red glad mouth of morn.|| 164|
| Elate as Heaven.|| 165|
As the strong star smiles that lets no mourner mourn.
| Exulted as the sunrise in its might.|| 167|
| Eyes as glad as summer.|| 168|
|Gold-eyed as the shore-flower shelterless|
Whereon the sharp-breathed sea blows bitterness,
A storm-star that the seafarers of love
Strain their wind-wearied eyes for glimpses of.
|Your grave majestic eyes|
Like a birds warbled words
Speak, and sorrow dies.
| Thy face|
Was as a waters wearied with wind.
| Faded, as fields that withering winds leave dry.|| 172|
| Fade like flame.|| 173|
| Fade as leaves when the woods wax hoary.|| 174|
| Fain of the wild glad weather|
As famine is fain of feast.
| Faint as the moon if the sundawn gleam.|| 176|
|Faint as the shadows of ages|
That sunder their season and ours.
| Fair as a fairy.|| 178|
| Fair as a field in flower.|| 179|
| Fair as all that the world may call most fair, save only the seas own face.|| 180|
| Fair as any poison-flower|
Whose blossom blights the withering bower
Whereon its blasting breath has power.
| Fair as a star-shaped flower.|| 182|
| Fair as dawn.|| 183|
| Fair as dreams that die and know not what they were.|| 184|
| Fair as even the wakening skies.|| 185|
| Fair as flame.|| 186|
| Fair as fled foam.|| 187|
| Fair as heaven in spring.|| 188|
| Fair as hope divines.|| 189|
| Fair as life.|| 190|
| Fair as peace.|| 191|
| Clean and fair|
As sunlight and the flowerful air.
| Fair as the ambient gold of wall-flowers.|| 193|
| Fair as the eyes are fair.|| 194|
| Fair as the face of the star-clothed night.|| 195|
| Fair as the frondage each fleet year sees fade.|| 196|
| Fair as the morning.|| 197|
| Fair as the sunbright air.|| 198|
| Fair as the sundawns flame|
Seen when May on her first-born day bids earth exult in her radiant name.
| Fair as the worlds old faith of flowers.|| 200|
|Fair as thine eyes beam|
Hidden and shown in heaven.
| Fair as thought could dream.|| 202|
| Fair as youth.|| 203|
| Fall as a slaughtered beast headless.|| 204|
| Fallen as leaves by the storms in their season thinned.|| 205|
| False and foul as fear.|| 206|
| Fragrant his fame as flowers that close not.|| 207|
| Far as heavens red labouring eye could glance.|| 208|
| Far as hope from joy or sleep from truth.|| 209|
| Far from earth as heaven.|| 210|
| Fast as autumn days toward winter.|| 211|
| Fast as fire on earth devours.|| 212|
| Fast as the gins grip of a wayfarer.|| 213|
| Fast as warriors grip their brands when battles bolt is hurled.|| 214|
| Made fast as with anchors to land.|| 215|
| Fast in bondage as herded beasts.|| 216|
| Fast as storm could speed.|| 217|
| Faultless as a flower.|| 218|
| Bred him fearless, like a sea-mew reared|
In rocks of mans foot feared,
Where nought of wingless life may sing or shine.
|A babys feet, like sea-shells pink,|
Might tempt, should heaven see meet,
An angels lips to kiss, we think,
A babys feet.
Like rose-hued sea-flowers toward the heat
They stretch and spread and wink
Their ten soft buds that part and meet.
| Fell as falls an ember from forth a flameless pile.|| 221|
| Fervent as fiery moon.|| 222|
| Fierce as a blast of hate from hell.|| 223|
| Fierce as the fervid eyes of lions.|| 224|
| Filled as cloud with fire.|| 225|
| More fine than moonbeams.|| 226|
| Firm as dust and fixed as shadows.|| 227|
| Fitful as the sea.|| 228|
| Fixed like a sea-rock.|| 229|
| Flames like morn.|| 230|
| Flares like an angered and storm-redding morn.|| 231|
| Flash and toss|
Like plumes in battles blithest charge.
As dead sands be at utmost ebb that drink
The drainèd salt o the sea.
As clouds and winds and rays across the sea.
| Fleet as light.|| 235|
| Fleet as the lightnings laugh.|| 236|
As words of men or snowflakes on the wind.
| Flickers like a blown-out flame.|| 238|
| Flickering like a wind-bewildered leaf.|| 239|
| Flicker like fire.|| 240|
| Fluctuated as flowers in rain|
That bends them and they tremble and rise again
And heave and straighten and quiver all through with bliss
And turn afresh their mouths up for a kiss,
Amorous, athirst of that sweet influent love.
| Flushed as one afire with wine.|| 242|
|Like snow-coloured petals|
Of blossoms that flee
From storm that unsettles
The flower as the tree
| Fluttering like spent fire.|| 244|
| Eyelids folded like a white-rose leaf.|| 245|
| Forged like steel and tempered thought.|| 246|
| Forgotten as changes of dreams.|| 247|
| Forgotten like spilt wine.|| 248|
| Forked like the loveliest lightnings.|| 249|
| Foul as plague-polluted gloom.|| 250|
| Fragrant as the dewfall.|| 251|
As birds that breast and brave the sea.
| Free as the circling sea.|| 253|
| Free as heaven.|| 254|
| Free-born as winds and stars and waves are free.|| 255|
| Freer than birds or dreams are free.|| 256|
| Fresh as the spirit of sunrise.|| 257|
| Fresh as a sea-flower.|| 258|
| Fruitful as a sheltering palm.|| 259|
|Full as a feasters hand|
Fills full with bloom of bland
Bright wine his cup.
As broken breakers rally and roar|
The loud wind down that drives off shore.
like flies in the sun.|| 262|
| Gay as April ere he dreams of May.|| 263|
| Glad as a bird whose flight is impelled and sustained by love.|| 264|
|Glad as the golden spring to greet|
Its first live leaflets play.
| Glance and gleam like the green heights of sunset heaven.|| 266|
| Gleams as a ghosts glory in dreams.|| 267|
| Gleam broad as the brows of the billows that brighten the storm with their crests.|| 268|
|Gleam like a cloud the westering sun stains red|
Till all the blood of days blithe heart be bled
And all nights heart requickened.
| Gleams like springs green bloom on boughs all gaunt and gnarry.|| 270|
Like the green heights of sunset heaven.
| Glittering as the wine-bright jacinth-stone.|| 272|
| Glittering as wine.|| 273|
| Sweet and glorious as compassion.|| 274|
| Glorious as the sea.|| 275|
| Rose glorious as with gleam of gold unpriced.|| 276|
As a heart burns with some divine thing done.
| Gnaw like fire.|| 278|
| Gold as golden as the gold of hives.|| 279|
| Golden as water kindled with presage of dawn or night.|| 280|
|Gracious as the golden maiden morn|
When darkness craves her blessing.
| Grey as a flower ruined.|| 282|
| Green as summer.|| 283|
Was as a last years leaf
Blown dead far down the winds way.
| Grim as dreams that quicken from dead mens graves.|| 285|
| Grim as hell.|| 286|
| Grows great as the moon through the month.|| 287|
| Haggard as crime.|| 288|
| Haggard as fear.|| 289|
| Haggard as hell.|| 290|
| Haggard as the face of night.|| 291|
| A babys hands, like rosebuds furled.|| 292|
| Hard as the push of death.|| 293|
| Harmless as my lifes first day.|| 294|
| Harmless as the lightning life of song.|| 295|
| Harsh as the bitterness of death.|| 296|
| Like a jagged shells lips, harsh.|| 297|
| Hateful as the grave.|| 298|
|Heart heaved as a mans death-smitten with a dart|
That smites him sleeping, warm and full of life.
| Held you
As flesh holds flesh, and the soul the soul.
| Hewn as if with stroke of swords in tempest steeled.|| 301|
| High as the sunniest heights of kindliest thought.|| 302|
| Hisses as with mouths of snakes and wolves at bay.|| 303|
| Hoary as ashes that show not a gleam.|| 304|
| Hoar as the hawthorn blossom in spring.|| 305|
| Hoary as weeds cast up from the hoary sea.|| 306|
| Hot as hell.|| 307|
| Hot like Mars.|| 308|
| Hot and close as fire.|| 309|
| Strives and hovers|
As a bird above the brood her bosom covers.
| Hovers as birds that impend on the sea.|| 311|
| Hungering hard as frost that feeds on flowers.|| 312|
|Hushed soft as the leaves and the grasses|
Are hushed if the storms foot draws near.
| Immense as the sea.|| 314|
| Immortal as air or as fire is.|| 315|
| Immortal as art and as love.|| 316|
| Imperceptible as the spots on the sun or the shadows on a sunlit seat.|| 317|
| Incarnate, as all summer in flower.|| 318|
| Increased as the chant of the dawn that the choir of the noon outsings.|| 319|
| Joyful as the sea.|| 320|
| Jubilant as earth.|| 321|
| Keen as a swords edge.|| 322|
| Keen as burns the passion of the rose.|| 323|
| Keen as death to smite.|| 324|
| Keen as flame.|| 325|
| Keen as hate.|| 326|
| Keen as iron in the flesh.|| 327|
| Keen as lightnings life.|| 328|
| Eyes as keen as pain.|| 329|
| Keen as sleep and strife.|| 330|
| Keen as the fires own fang.|| 331|
| Keen as the heart of Mars.|| 332|
| Keen as hunger.|| 333|
| Keen as the hearts desire.|| 334|
| Keen as the manslayers knife.|| 335|
| Keen as the seas thrill towards a kindling star.|| 336|
| Like the sunlight kind.|| 337|
| Kind as harvest in autumn.|| 338|
| Kind as the fostering air.|| 339|
| Kind as the sun in heaven.|| 340|
| Kindled like as heaven in June.|| 341|
| Heart kindling as the heart of heaven.|| 342|
| Kindling, as dawn a frost-bound precipice.|| 343|
| Kindling as a rose at breath of sunrise.|| 344|
|Soft laughter as of light that stirs the sea|
With darkling sense of dawn ere dawn may be.
| Laughter soft as tears.|| 346|
| Lead as a mother.|| 347|
|Led lovingly like hound in huntsmans leash|
Or child by finger.
| Leaps clear as a flame from the pyres of the dead.|| 349|
| Leaps like fire.|| 350|
| Leap up|
As red wine mantling in a royal cup.
| Leaps up as the foes heart leaps.|| 352|
| Light as a laugh of glee.|| 353|
| Heart is as light as a leaf on a tree.|| 354|
| Light as a spring south-wind.|| 355|
| Light as foam.|| 356|
| Light as laugh of flame.|| 357|
| Light as riotous insolence.|| 358|
| A hand at the door taps light as the hand of my hearts delight.|| 359|
| Light as the spray that disperses.|| 360|
| Listless as the summer-stricken air.|| 361|
| Lithe as lips|
That curl in touching you.
| Locked as in a wrestle together.|| 363|
| Her sorrow as long|
As the passage of numberless ages in slumberless song.
| Loose as the petals of roses discrowned.|| 365|
|Loud as the winds when stormy spring|
Makes all the woodland rage and ring.
| Loud as when the storm at ebb-tide rends the beach.|| 367|
| Love him as Frenchmen love Napoleon.|| 368|
| Low as broken crown.|| 369|
| Lowering as a storm-flushed moon.|| 370|
| Lurid as anguish.|| 371|
| Lustrous as laughter.|| 372|
| Masterful as fate.|| 373|
|Mild as the murmuring of Hymettian bees|
And honied as their harvest.
| Mild as very sleep.|| 375|
| Mocks as whom the fen-fire leads|
By the creed-wrought faith of faithless souls that mock their doubts with creeds.
| Moist as a desert with dew.|| 377|
| Molten as lead.|| 378|
| Mourn like a boy beaten.|| 379|
| Mouth tremulous light as a sea-birds motion oversea.|| 380|
| Her mouth|
Was as a rose athirst that pants for drouth.
| Red mouth like a venomous flower.|| 382|
| Mouth sweeter than cherries.|| 383|
| Murmurs as who talks in dreams with death.|| 384|
| Mutable as sand.|| 385|
| Mute as a maiden.|| 386|
| Mute as the mouth which felt deaths wave oerflow it.|| 387|
| Muttering like smoked bees.|| 388|
| In one,|
As all the stars found utterance through the sun.
| Pale and pure as a maiden secluded in secret and cherished in fear.|| 390|
| Pale and sweet as a dreams delight.|| 391|
| Pale as grass or later flowers.|| 392|
| Pale as the duskiest lilys leaf.|| 393|
| Pale as the front of oblivion.|| 394|
| Pale as the glimmer of stars on moorland meres.|| 395|
| Pale as the moon in star-forsaken skies.|| 396|
as twilight.|| 397|
| Paler than young snow.|| 398|
| Pallid and pink as the palm of the flag-flower that flickers with fear of the flies as they float.|| 399|
|Palpitant as mens pulses palpitate|
Between the flowing and ebbing tides of fate
That wash their lifelong waifs of weal and woe
Through night and light and twilight to and fro.
| Panting, and swept as by the sense of death.|| 401|
| Panted like a sick mans fitful breath.|| 402|
|And pass as love and sorrow pass,|
As shadows flashing down a glass,
As dew-flowers blowing in flowerless grass.
| Passes as the grey dew from the morning mountain grasses.|| 404|
| Pass as the flight of a year.|| 405|
| Patient as the hours.|| 406|
| Perfect as a flame|
That springs and spreads, till each glad limb became
A note of rapture in the tune of life.
| Perish, as haze in sunrise on the red sea-line.|| 408|
| Perish as the snow built up of sleep.|| 409|
| Pinches like a trap that shuts.|| 410|
|Pitiful as he thats hired for death|
And loves the slaying yet better than the hire.
| Pleasant as a scented mouth to kiss.|| 412|
| Pure and painless as a virgins dreams.|| 413|
| Pure as at the daydawn of the world.|| 414|
| Pure as faith.|| 415|
| Pure as Edens dew.|| 416|
| Desire pure as babes that nestles toward the breast.|| 417|
| Pure as fire or flowers or snows.|| 418|
| Pure as heaven.|| 419|
| Pure as loves heart is.|| 420|
| Pure as one purged of pain that passion bore.|| 421|
| Pure as the dawn and the dew.|| 422|
| Pure as the depth of pain.|| 423|
| Pure as the wind and the sun.|| 424|
| Pure as truth.|| 425|
| Purges as with fire of purgatory.|| 426|
| Quenched as a flame.|| 427|
| Quiet as the sun.|| 428|
| Quivering as when life is hard on death.|| 429|
| Races as dust and surf of the sea.|| 430|
|Rapture like the rage of hate allayed|
With ruin and ravin that its might hath made.
| Ravenous as the fitful sea.|| 432|
| Readily as condemned men take reprieve.|| 433|
| Recedes as a dream recedes.|| 434|
|Recoils, and climbs and closes,|
As a wave of the sea turned back.
| Red as dawn.|| 436|
| Red as hate.|| 437|
| Red as hot brows of shame.|| 438|
| Red as love or shame.|| 439|
| Lips red as mornings rise.|| 440|
| Red as the rains of hell.|| 441|
| Reeked as a wet red grave.|| 442|
| Reeked as fumes from hell.|| 443|
| Reels as any reed under the wind.|| 444|
As waves wind-thwarted on the sea.
|Is rent as carrion by the vulturous beaks|
That feed on fame and soil it.
| Righteous as redemption.|| 447|
| Ring as trumpets blown for battle.|| 448|
| Rings as the blast of martial mirth when trumpets fire mens hearts for fray.|| 449|
| Rings clean as the clear winds cry through the roar of the surge on the rocks.|| 450|
|The peril ripens like a wound o the flesh|
That gathers poison.
| Rising as a shoreward sea.|| 452|
| Roam as wolves in a wolfish horde.|| 453|
As waves that race and find no goal.
| Rot as corn ungarnered.|| 455|
| Round as a pearl or tear.|| 456|
| Rousd like a huntsman to the chase.|| 457|
like a lost army.|| 458|
| His lips waxed ruddy as light.|| 459|
| Run ravening as the Gadarean swine.|| 460|
| Sad as a soul estranged.|| 461|
| Sad as a wintry withering moon.|| 462|
| Bare and sad as banishment.|| 463|
| Sad as doom.|| 464|
| Sapped as weak sand by water.|| 465|
| Scattered them as crows.|| 466|
| Scatter as wild swans parting adrift on the wan green waste.|| 467|
| Sealed as the voice of a frost-bound stream.|| 468|
| Shakes like flame.|| 469|
| Shaken like spray from the sea.|| 470|
| Shamed as a Mayflower shames an autumn leaf.|| 471|
| Shapeless as a shadow.|| 472|
| Sharp as the north sets when the snows are out.|| 473|
| More sharp than is the naked side of war.|| 474|
|Shattered, like a stranded bark|
On the wrathful woful marge of earth and sea.
|Shed loose as the petals of roses discrowned|
On the floors of the forest.
| The rays run sheer as fire from the sun through the dusk of the pine-wood.|| 477|
| Shone and shivered like wings of angels blown by the suns breath.|| 478|
| Shines as a cloud-constraining star.|| 479|
| Shone like a burning brand.|| 480|
| Shone like a drop of dew.|| 481|
| Shining like all April in one day.|| 482|
| Shining like a sunbeam-smitten tear.|| 483|
| Shone like the star that shines down storm.|| 484|
| Shine sweet like stars when darkness feels them strong.|| 485|
| Shone like suns aglow.|| 486|
| Shoots, as a fire to smite some towering town.|| 487|
| Shriek like a storm-wind.|| 488|
| Shrinks, as might love from scorn.|| 489|
| Shrouded as a corpse with storms grey shroud.|| 490|
| Shuddering like a shot bird.|| 491|
| My heart is shut|
As a sealed spring of fire.
| Sick as Lent.|| 493|
| Spread sideways like a drawing net.|| 494|
|Went sideways as a big fish flaps|
And shoves with head and body.
| Silent as a mountain lawn.|| 496|
| Silent as time.|| 497|
| Silent as a stooping cloud.|| 498|
| Single as the sun.|| 499|
| Sink down as a sunset in sea-mist.|| 500|
| Sinless as the spring.|| 501|
like a dog shivering.|| 502|
| Slays as plagues blind breath.|| 503|
| Sleep as a slain man sleeps.|| 504|
| Sleepless of soul as wind or wave or fire.|| 505|
| Slight as indeed a dew-drop.|| 506|
|Slight as the seas sight of the sea-mew,|
Slight as the suns sight of the star.
| Slowlier than life into breath
it moves.|| 508|
| Smiles more sweet than flowers.|| 509|
| Smiled as dawn on the spirit of man.|| 510|
| Smiled as one living even on craft and hate.|| 511|
| Smiling dim|
As the smile on a lip still fearful.
As though the spirit and sense unreconciled
Sank laughing back, and would not ere its hour
Let life put forth the irrevocable flower.
like songs triumphant breath.|| 514|
| Smiling, like a star in the blackest night.|| 515|
| Soft and listless as the slumber-stricken air.|| 516|
| Soft as a low long sigh.|| 517|
| Soft as lip is soft to lip.|| 518|
| Soft as at noon the slow seas rise and fall.|| 519|
as desire that prevails and fades.|| 520|
| Soft as fire in dew.|| 521|
| Soft as hate speaks within itself apart.|| 522|
| Soft as heaven the stream that girdles hell.|| 523|
| Soft as lips that laugh.|| 524|
| Soft as oer her babe the smile of Mary.|| 525|
| Soft as a weak wind blows.|| 526|
| Soft as sleep sings in a tired mans ear.|| 527|
| Soft as snow lights on her snow-soft flesh.|| 528|
| Soft as swans plumes are.|| 529|
| Borne soft as the babe from the bearing-bed.|| 530|
As the clouds and beams of night.
| Soft as the least waves lapse in a still small reach.|| 532|
| Soft as the loosening of wound arms in sleep.|| 533|
|Sorrow, like cloud that flies,|
Like a cloud in clearing skies,
As who bids dead men wake.
|Swift with speech like fire in fiery lands|
To melt the steels edge in the headsmans hands.
|Splendid as the limbs of that supreme incarnate beauty through mens visions gleam,|
Whereof all fairest things are even but shadow or dream.
| Cold and splendid as death if dawn be bright.|| 538|
| Splendid and strange as the sea that upbears as an ark.|| 539|
| The soul squats down in the flesh, like a tinker drunk in a ditch.|| 540|
| Steadfast as a sea-mews wing.|| 541|
| Steadfast as clouds or hours in flight.|| 542|
| Stern and still|
As hours and years that change and anguish fill.
| Stern as Medea in her dragon car.|| 544|
|Still as fair shapes fixed on some wondrous wall|
Of minster-aisle or cloister-close or hall
To take even times eye prisoner with delight.
| Stung like fire.|| 546|
| Stirred like springtide waters.|| 547|
|And with such song the hollow ways were stirred|
As of a gods heart hidden in a bird,
Or as the whole soul of the sun in spring
Should find full utterance in one flower-soft word.
| Straight as thought could span.|| 549|
| One great strain of joy as the sea breaking.|| 550|
| Strange as are night and morning, stars and sun.|| 551|
| Strange as chance or doom.|| 552|
| Strange as hopes green blossom touched with times harsh rust.|| 553|
| Strange as life.|| 554|
| Strange as light|
That cleaves in twain the shadow of night
Before the wide-winged world takes flight
That thunder speaks to depth and height
And quells the quiet hour with sound.
| Strange as sleep.|| 556|
| Strange as heaven.|| 557|
| Strange as fate.|| 558|
| Strange as the sea.|| 559|
| Dark with strife,|
Like heavens own sun that storming clouds bedim.
As toward the sundawn strives the lark.
| Strove as in toils.|| 562|
like songs triumphant breath.|| 563|
| Strong as a wild swans pinions.|| 564|
| Strong as grows the yearning of the blossom toward the fruit.|| 565|
| Strong as love.|| 566|
| Strong as the seas.|| 567|
| Strong as the worldwide sun.|| 568|
| Strong as sheer truth.|| 569|
| Strong as time.|| 570|
| Strong like fate.|| 571|
| As faith sublime.|| 572|
| Sublime and triumphant as fire or as lightning.|| 573|
As God were man, to spare or to forget.
| Sublime as storm or sorrow.|| 575|
| Sublime as truth.|| 576|
| Subtle as thin water.|| 577|
| Sudden as a flame.|| 578|
| Sure as night is known from day.|| 579|
| Sure as present pain is.|| 580|
| Sure as truth.|| 581|
| Sure as sense of beast or bird.|| 582|
| Surely as the day-star loves the sun.|| 583|
As storm across his soul that kept
Wild watch, and watched not well.
|Sweet-hearted as a bird that takes the sun|
With clear strong eyes and feels the glad god run
Bright through his blood and wide rejoicing wings,
And opens all himself to heaven and sings.
| Sweet as April-clouded skies.|| 586|
| Sweet as a childs heart-lightening laugh to hear.|| 587|
| Sweet-souled as a dove.|| 588|
| Sweet as all the wide sweet south.|| 589|
| Sweet as death-annihilating song.|| 590|
| Sweet as dreams delight.|| 591|
| Sweet and comely as a doves throat strained out to sing.|| 592|
|Sweet as early kisses of a mouth|
Scented like honey.
| Sweet as hopes first note of jubilation.|| 594|
| Sweet as life or death can be.|| 595|
| Sweet as rest.|| 596|
As running streams to mens way-wearied feet.
| Sweet as sleep on sorrow shed.|| 598|
| Sweet as sound the moving wings of night.|| 599|
| Sweet and good as summer air.|| 600|
| Sweet as forgiveness.|| 601|
| Sweet as nights dim dawn to weariness.|| 602|
| Sweet as the balm of sleep.|| 603|
| Sweet as the change that leaves the world in flower when spring laughs winter down to deathward.|| 604|
| Sweet as the dewfall.|| 605|
| Sweet as the flower that itself is May.|| 606|
| Sweet as the kiss wherewith sleep kisses pain.|| 607|
| Sweet as the spasm of erotic emotional error.|| 608|
|Sweet as the winds that beat|
Round banks where Tyne is born.
| Sweet as when earth was new.|| 610|
| Sweet as when|
Laughs a child of seven.
| A sound more sweet than Aprils flower-sweet rain.|| 612|
| Sweeter than joy-bells ringing.|| 613|
| Swift and steadfast as a sea-mews wing.|| 614|
| Swift as a shadow.|| 615|
|Made my blood burn and swoon|
Like a flame rained upon.
| Taps light|
As the hand of my hearts delight.
| Grasp tenacious as a vipers.|| 618|
| Tender as a hurt birds note.|| 619|
| Tender as tears.|| 620|
| Tender as sun-smitten dew.|| 621|
| Tender as the inside of the eyelid.|| 622|
| Tense as a war-steed girth.|| 623|
| Tense as wire.|| 624|
| Terrible as fire.|| 625|
| Thick as buds in April.|| 626|
| Thick as the darkness of leaf-shadowed spring is encumbered with flowers.|| 627|
|Lie thick as the blades of the grasses|
The dead in their graves.
| Thick as grave-worms.|| 629|
| Thinned, as the shades in a vision of spirits that sinned.|| 630|
| Thrill as a theatre thronged at appeal of an actors appalled agitation.|| 631|
| Thrilled as by the clangorous call|
Of storms blown trumpets from the core of night.
Like the whole worlds heart, with warm new life and gladdening flame.
| Thronged, as to storm sweet heavens triumphal gate.|| 634|
| Time is as wind, and as waves are we.|| 635|
| With tongue is like a swords point.|| 636|
| Tongueless as she whom a man-snake stung.|| 637|
| Transformed as night or as day by the kindling year.|| 638|
| Transforming sleep, like that of the chrysalis.|| 639|
| Transient as faith or as terror that bows mens knees.|| 640|
| Tremble as with love that casts out fear.|| 641|
| Trembled like a stricken thrall.|| 642|
| Tremble like lute-strings.|| 643|
| Tremulous like fire.|| 644|
| Triumph like the bitterness of death.|| 645|
| Triumphant as the sun.|| 646|
| Trodden as grapes in the wine-press of lust.|| 647|
| True as truths own heart.|| 648|
|Turning as a turning wave|
Against the land-wind.
| All undone,|
As earth from her bright body casts off night.
| Uplift as the hearts and the mouths of the singers, on the leaside and lawn.|| 651|
| Upright as a sheer cliffs wall.|| 652|
| Vain as a dead mans vision.|| 653|
| Valor higher than that which casts out fear.|| 654|
| Vast as the mid bulk of a roof-trees beam.|| 655|
As the storm shifts of the tempestuous year.
| Voice like quiring waves.|| 657|
That rings athwart the sea whence no man steers
Like joy-bells crossed with death-bells in our ears.
|Wailed as in some flooded cave|
Sobs the strong broken spirit of a wave.
as one making moan for her child.|| 660|
| As a dead face wan and dun.|| 661|
| Wan as foam blown up by the sunburnt sands.|| 662|
As a dream dies down and is dead.
| Warm and soft as the dome aloft.|| 664|
| Glow warm as the thyme.|| 665|
Like an ember among the fallen embers.
| Waste like death.|| 667|
| Wave as with swing of the sea|
When the mid tide sways at its height.
| His face waxed like as sunburnt grass.|| 669|
| Weak as foam on the sands.|| 670|
| Weak as hearts made sick with hope deferred.|| 671|
| Weak as snow.|| 672|
weak as night devoured by day.|| 673|
| Weaker than the worm.|| 674|
| White as dead stark-stricken dove.|| 675|
| White as faiths and ages hue.|| 676|
| White as moonlight snows.|| 677|
| White as the live heart of light.|| 678|
| White as the sparkle of snow-flowers in the sun.|| 679|
| White as the unfruitful thorn-flower.|| 680|
| Wide as life.|| 681|
|Willing as the springtide sea gives up|
Her will to the eastern sea-winds.
| Withered all our strength like flame.|| 683|
| Withheld as things forbidden.|| 684|
| Wizen, like a small dry tree.|| 685|
| My words are like spoken roses.|| 686|
|With all the rhymes like stars above you,|
And all the words like flowers.
| Words like swords and thunderclouded creeds.|| 688|
| Worthless all as sands.|| 689|
| Woven as raiment.|| 690|
| Yearning as with child of death.|| 691|
| Yelled as beasts of ravin.|| 692|
| Yellow as pestilence.|| 693|
| Young as dawn.|| 694|