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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Soft
 
  Soft as the satin fringe that shades the eyelids of thy fragrant maids.
            —Thomas Bailey Aldrich		  1
Soft as the broken solar beam,
That trembles in the solar stream.
            —Anacreon		  2
  Soft as misted star.
            —Mary Louisa Anderson		  3
  Soft and creamy as a charlotte russe.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Soft and supple as lady’s glove.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Soft as a Dartmoor bog.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Soft as a flute.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Soft as a government job.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Soft as a jelly fish.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Soft as a shadow.
            —Anonymous		  10
  Soft as foot can fall.
            —Anonymous		  11
  Soft as marshmallows.
            —Anonymous		  12
  Soft as mush.
            —Anonymous		  13
  Soft as pudding.
            —Anonymous		  14
  Soft as sad music.
            —Anonymous		  15
  Soft as showers that fall on April meads.
            —Anonymous		  16
  Soft as soap.
            —Anonymous		  17
  Soft as the evening wind murmuring among willows.
            —Anonymous		  18
  Soft as the hands of indolence.
            —Anonymous		  19
  Soft as the murmurs of a virgin’s sigh.
            —Anonymous		  20
  Delicately soft as the sand that has been trod on by dainty seraphs.
            —Anonymous		  21
  Soft as the snow on the sea.
            —Anonymous		  22
  Soft as zephyr of a summer sky.
            —Anonymous		  23
  Softly as a milk tooth leaving a baby’s gum.
            —Anonymous		  24
  Softly as on ice that will scarcely bear.
            —Anonymous		  25
  Softly … like the footfalls of departed spirits.
            —Anonymous		  26
  Soft as silk in her touch.
            —Arabian Nights		  27
  Soft as threaded pearls.
            —Arabian Nights		  28
  Softer than zephyr’s wing.
            —Arabian Nights		  29
  Soft as the breath of even.
            —Harriet Auber		  30
  Thy sweet words drop upon the ear as soft as rose leaves on a wall.
            —Philip James Bailey		  31
  Softly sublime like lightnings in repose.
            —Philip James Bailey		  32
  Soft as the sunlight.
            —William Cox Bennett		  33
  Softly like a stream of oil.
            —William Browne		  34
  Soft voice as a laughing dream.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  35
  Soft as the breeze flitting over the flowers.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  36
Soft as the dew on flowers of spring,
Sweet as the hidden drops that swell their honey-throated chalicing.
            —Robert Bridges (English)		  37
  Soft as Muses’ string.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  38
  Soft as a mother’s kiss.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  39
  Soft as a silent hush.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  40
Softly, as the last repenting drops
Of a thunder-shower.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  41
  Soft as a sofa.
            —Edward Bulwer-Lytton		  42
  Soft as wool.
            —Robert Burton		  43
  Soft as the murmurs of a virgin’s sigh.
            —William Byrd		  44
  Soft as the callow cygnet in its nest.
            —Lord Byron		  45
  Soft as the gentler breathing of the lute.
            —Lord Byron		  46
  Soft as the houri strings his long entrancing note.
            —Lord Byron		  47
  Soft as the melody of youthful days.
            —Lord Byron		  48
  Soft as the memory of buried love.
            —Lord Byron		  49
  Soft as the unfledged birdling when at rest.
            —Lord Byron		  50
  Soft as the eyes of a girl.
            —Wilfred Campbell		  51
  Soft as a bed of roses blown.
            —Thomas Carew		  52
  Soft as duffel.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  53
  Soft as sunset.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  54
  Soft as snow that falls on snow.
            —Alice Cary		  55
  Soft as a bank of moss.
            —Robert Cawdray (A Treasurie or Store-house of Similies, 1600)		  56
  Soft as love.
            —James Cawthorn		  57
  Soft as silence.
            —William Ellery Channing		  58
  Soft as the breath of morn in bloom of spring.
            —Thomas Chatterton		  59
  Soft as the cooing of the turtle dove.
            —Thomas Chatterton		  60
  Soft as the moss where hissing adders dwell.
            —Thomas Chatterton		  61
  Softe as the sommer flowrets.
            —Thomas Chatterton		  62
  As soft as honey-dew.
            —Samuel Taylor Coleridge		  63
  Soft as the passing wind.
            —William Cowper		  64
  Soft as the breath of a sleeper.
            —Isa Craig		  65
  Soft, his accents fill, like voices of departed friends heard in our dreams, or music in the air, when night-spirits warble their magic minstrelsy.
            —Richard Cumberland		  66
  Soft as pity.
            —George Darley		  67
  Soft as the murmurs of a weeping spring.
            —Sir William Davenant		  68
  As soft and sleek as girlish cheek.
            —Austin Dobson		  69
  Soft as a baby’s breath.
            —Julia C. R. Dorr		  70
  Soft as spirit’s sigh.
            —Julia C. R. Dorr		  71
  Soft as summer.
            —Ernest Dowson		  72
  Soft as prayer.
            —Ernest Dowson		  73
  Skin as soft as Naples silk.
            —Michael Drayton		  74
  Soft as Lempster wool.
            —Michael Drayton		  75
  Soft and caressing as a melody.
            —Alexandre Dumas, père		  76
  Soft as a whisper.
            —George Du Maurier		  77
  Soft … like a whispered dream of sleeping music.
            —George Eliot		  78
  Soft as pattering drops that fall from off the eaves in fancy dance when clouds are breaking.
            —George Eliot		  79
  Soft and fluid as a cloud on the air.
            —Ralph Waldo Emerson		  80
Soft as the songs of some shy hidden bird
From the low fields of woodlands nightly heard.
            —Frederick William Faber		  81
  Soft as the voice of summer’s evening gale.
            —William Falconer		  82
  Soft as love.
            —William Falconer		  83
Soft as the breath of distant flutes at hours
When silent evening closes up the flowers.
            —John Gay		  84
  Soft as when Venus stroked the beard of Jove.
            —John Gay		  85
  Soft as the stringed harp’s moan.
            —Gerald Griffin		  86
  Soft as is the falling thistle downe.
            —Joseph Hall		  87
Cheeks, soft as September’s rose
Blushing but faintly on its faltering stem.
            —Paul Hamilton Hayne		  88
  Soft as silkworms.
            —Stephen Hawes		  89
  Soft as the whisper shut within a shell.
            —William Ernest Henley		  90
  Soft as jelly.
            —Thomas Heywood		  91
  Soft as sleep.
            —Hesiod		  92
  Soft as pity, and as blest.
            —Aaron Hill		  93
  Soft as upper air.
            —Aaron Hill		  94
  Soft as rain.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  95
  As soft as swan’s down.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  96
  Soft as the moonbeams when they sought Endymion’s fragrant bower.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  97
  Soft as a flute.
            —Thomas Hood		  98
  Soft as flowers.
            —Thomas Hood		  99
Sounds upon the air most soothing soft,
Like humming bees busy about the brooms.
            —Thomas Hood		  100
  Soft as a dream of beauty.
            —Richard Hovey		  101
  Soft as the division in the wool of a sheep.
            —Victor Hugo		  102
  Soft as love’s first word.
            —Jean Ingelow		  103
  Soft … as cob-webs.
            —Ben Jonson		  104
  Soft as cream.
            —Jean Ingelow		  105
  Soft as Memnon’s harp at morning.
            —John Keble		  106
  Soft as imprison’d martyr’s deathbed calm.
            —John Keble		  107
  Soft as the face of maid.
            —Frederic L. Knowles		  108
  Soft as a dying violet-breath.
            —Sidney Lanier		  109
  Soft and still, like birds half hidden in a nest.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  110
  Soft as velvet.
            —John Lydgate		  111
  Soft as silke.
            —John Lyly		  112
  Soft as the swan-down where Summer sleeps.
            —George Mac-Henry		  113
  Soft as the sighings of the gale, that wakes the flowery year.
            —David Mallet		  114
Soft as dew-drops when they settle
In a fair flower’s open petal.
            —Philip B. Marston		  115
  Soft as light-fall on unfolding flowers.
            —Gerald Massey		  116
  Soft and thick as a feather bed.
            —Guy de Maupassant		  117
  Soft as a kiss.
            —Joaquin Miller		  118
  Soft as moonlight.
            —Mary Russell Mitford		  119
Soft as evening o’er the ocean,
When she charms the waves to rest.
            —James Montgomery		  120
  Soft as in moments of bliss long ago.
            —Thomas Moore		  121
  Soft as lightning in May.
            —Thomas Moore		  122
  Soft as the back of a swan.
            —Thomas Nash		  123
  Soft as angels.
            —Thomas Otway		  124
  Soft as a baby’s cheek.
            —Thomas Nelson Page		  125
  Soft as twin-violets moist with early dew.
            —Andrew Park		  126
  Her voice … soft as Zephyr sighs on morning lily’s cheek.
            —Robert Pollok		  127
  Soft as yielding air.
            —Matthew Prior		  128
  Soft as a pillow.
            —William B. Rands		  129
  Soft as angels’ wings.
            —James Whitcomb Riley		  130
Soft as a sunny shadow
When day is almost done.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  131
  Soft as music’s measure.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  132
  Soft as spring.
            —Dante Gabriel Rossetti		  133
Soft as the gleam after sunset
That hangs like a halo of grace
Where the daylight had died in the valley.
            —A. J. Ryan		  134
  Soft as air.
            —William Shakespeare		  135
  Soft as sinews of the new-born babe.
            —William Shakespeare		  136
  Soft as the dove’s down.
            —William Shakespeare		  137
  Soft as the parasite’s silk.
            —William Shakespeare		  138
  Soft as young down.
            —William Shakespeare		  139
  Soft as an Incarnation of the Sun.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  140
  Soft as sleep.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  141
  Soft as the thoughts of budding love.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  142
  Softer than the West wind’s sigh.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  143
  Soft as the wild duck’s tender young, that floats on Avon’s tide.
            —William Shenstone		  144
  Soft as a spirit prayer.
            —Seba Smith		  145
  Soft as a man with a dead child speaks.
            —Carl Stanburg		  146
  Whispering soft, like the last low accents of an expiring saint.
            —Laurence Sterne		  147
  Soft like the waxe, each image shall receive.
            —Earl of Stirling		  148
  Soft as pap.
            —Jonathan Swift		  149
  Softer than the dawn.
            —Jonathan Swift		  150
  Soft and listless as the slumber-stricken air.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  151
  Soft as a low long sigh.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  152
  Soft as lip is soft to lip.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  153
  Soft as at noon the slow sea’s rise and fall.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  154
  Soft … as desire that prevails and fades.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  155
  Soft as fire in dew.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  156
  Soft as hate speaks within itself apart.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  157
  Soft as heaven the stream that girdles hell.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  158
  Soft as lips that laugh.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  159
  Soft as o’er her babe the smile of Mary.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  160
  Soft as a weak wind blows.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  161
  Soft as sleep sings in a tired man’s ear.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  162
  Soft as snow lights on her snow-soft flesh.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  163
  Soft as swan’s plumes are.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  164
  Borne soft as the babe from the bearing-bed.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  165
                Soft …
As the clouds and beams of night.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  166
  Soft as the least wave’s lapse in a still small reach.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  167
  Soft as the loosening of wound arms in sleep.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  168
                Soft
As thoughts of beauty sleeping.
            —Arthur Symons		  169
  Soft, as Heaven’s angelic messenger might touch the lips of prayer, and make them blest.
            —Bayard Taylor		  170
  Soft as lonely maiden’s thoughts on him she loves.
            —Esaias Tegner		  171
There is sweet music here that softer falls
Than petals from blown roses on the grass.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  172
  Softer than oil.
            —Old Testament		  173
  Soft as satin.
            —William Makepeace Thackeray		  174
  Soft as a sleeping cat.
            —Theocritus		  175
Soft as the nightingale’s harmonious woe,
In dewy even-tide, when cowslips drop
Their sleepy heads, and languish in the breeze.
            —William Thomson		  176
  Soft as the blowbell.
            —Thomas Tickell		  177
  Soft, like summer night.
            —Mark Twain		  178
  Soft as a peacock steps.
            —Fazio degli Uberti		  179
  The air as soft as lovers’ jest.
            —Emanuel Von Giebel		  180
  Soft as summer breeze.
            —Samuel Ward		  181
  Soft as the wind of spring-tide in the trees.
            —Rosamund Marriott Watson		  182
  Soft as fall of thistle-down.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  183
  Soft as the flow of an infant’s breath.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  184
  Soft as the landscape of a dream.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  185
  Soft as a lady’s hand.
            —Ella Wheeler Wilcox		  186
  Soft as a cloud.
            —William Wordsworth		  187
 
 
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