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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Fade
 
  Fade as a passing breath.
            —Gilbert Abbott À Beckett		  1
  Faded as the iris after rain in April’s tearful weather.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Fades as the splendor fades from the sky, when the sun sinks to sleep.
            —Anonymous		  3
  He faded away like a pound of soap in a hard day’s wash.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Fade away like some fabled city of mythology.
            —Anonymous		  5
Fade like autumn leaves, and fade and die
With no kind hand to raise the head and gently close the dying eye.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Fade … like ghosts prohibited the day.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Faded like snow.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Faded like the morn.
            —Arabian Nights		  9
  Fades like an unfixed photograph.
            —William Archer		  10
  Fade like grass.
            —Matthew Arnold		  11
  Fades awa’ like morning dew.
            —Scottish Ballad		  12
  Fade away like morning beauty from her mortal day.
            —William Blake		  13
  As flowers kept too long in the shade … fade.
            —Elizabeth Barrett Browning		  14
  Fading like moonlight softly into darkness.
            —Robert Buchanan		  15
  Beauty fades as a tree in winter.
            —Robert Burton		  16
  Fade like stars before the sun.
            —Thomas Campbell		  17
  Fade away like a Vesture.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  18
  Faded … like the mist of a breath on a mirror.
            —Joseph Conrad		  19
  Fade like morning’s blush.
            —Eliza Cook		  20
  Fades like the rainbow’s brilliant arch.
            —Eliza Cook		  21
                Fades
Like the fair flow’r dishevell’d in the wind.
            —William Cowper		  22
  A beauty fading like the April show’rs.
            —William Drummond		  23
  Fade away like a cloud and vanish.
            —James Anthony Froude		  24
  Fading, like a morning dream.
            —Gerald Griffin		  25
  Fades as a kiss on lips of light.
            —Frank W. Gunsaulus		  26
  Fading away, like a pale English flower, in the shadow of the forest.
            —Nathaniel Hawthorne		  27
  Faded like a dream of youth.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  28
  Faded … like dew upon the sea.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  29
Fade like the roseate flush, the golden glow,
When the bright curtain of the day is rolled.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  30
                Fade unspoken,
Like daffodils that die with sheaths unbroken.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  31
  Fades like an old faith grown gray.
            —Brian Hooker		  32
Fade away like the pale sister of the night,
When she resigns her delighted light,
Lost in the blaze of day.
            —John Hughes		  33
  Faded from me like a dream.
            —Victor Hugo		  34
  Fade like an August marigold.
            —Jean Ingelow		  35
                Fade,
As shadows passing into deeper shade.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  36
  Faded slowly from the sight as blushes from the cheek.
            —Henry W. Longfellow		  37
  Fade away like a thin vapory cloud.
            —Lord Lyttelton		  38
  Faded like some rich raiment worn of old.
            —Rosamund Marriott-Watson		  39
Is all faded, like fragrance,
From the languishing late flowers.
            —Owen Meredith		  40
Fading … like a lingering star
That pales at sunrise in the waters of light.
            —Lloyd Mifflin		  41
  Fades like a funeral lay.
            —Thomas Moore		  42
  Fades like a once-heard tale.
            —Lewis Morris		  43
  Fades like sunset flame.
            —Constance C. W. Naden		  44
Fading like a ghost
At gray cock-crow.
            —John G. Neihardt		  45
How fading are the joys we dote upon!
Like apparitions seen and gone.
            —John Norris		  46
  Faded away like a woodcock leaves a weasel.
            —Edward Peple		  47
  Faded like a wreath of mist at eve.
            —George D. Prentice		  48
  Fade … like a nightmare’s ghastly presence, in the truthful dawn of day.
            —Adelaide A. Procter		  49
  Fade as a flower in May.
            —Richard Pynson		  50
  Fade like the gowans in May.
            —Allan Ramsay		  51
  Fade …
Like stars half quenched in mists of silver dew.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  52
  Fade like vapor.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  53
  Fade, like the hopes of youth.
            —Robert Southey		  54
  Fade like to a flowre that feeles no heate of sunne.
            —Edmund Spenser		  55
  Faded, as fields that withering winds leave dry.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  56
  Fade like flame.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  57
  Fade as leaves when the woods wax hoary.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  58
  We all do fade as a leaf.
            —Old Testament		  59
  Fading as hearts forget, as shadows flee.
            —Francis O. Ticknor		  60
                Fade
As placidly as when an infant dies.
            —Thomas Ward		  61
  Fade, like waves breaking on a dreary shore.
            —John Wilson		  62
  Fades like the lustre of an evening cloud.
            —William Wordsworth		  63
 
 
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