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Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.

Fair

Fair as virtuous friendship: as the candid blush of him who strives with fortune to be just.
—Mark Akenside

Fair as Esther.
—Anonymous

Fair as a friar that is invited to dinner.
—Anonymous

Fair as a saint.
—Anonymous

Fairer than fancy ever feigned.
—Anonymous

Fair as Lady Dove.
—Anonymous

Fair as stars that shine in summer skies.
—Anonymous

Fair as the garden of Shiraz.
—Anonymous

Fair as the glorified isles of the blest.
—Anonymous

Mary is fair as the morning dew.
—Anonymous

Fair as the virgin’s vows.
—Anonymous

Fair as the wild rose.
—Anonymous

Fair as winter lilies.
—Anonymous

Fair as youths by brides caress’d.
—Anonymous

As fair as summer roses.
—Thomas Ashe

Fair as lotus when the morn kisses its opening petals red.
—Ancient Ballad of Hindustan

Fair as the cup of a lily held in a maiden’s hand.
—Eugene Barry

Fair as the floweret opening in the morn.
—James Beattie

Fair as the bud unblasted.
—Beaumont and Fletcher

Fair as the morn.
—Michael Bruce

Fair as the hills of Paradise.
—William Cullen Bryant

Fair as pearls.
—Gottfried A. Bürger

As fair a thing as e’er was form’d of clay.
—Lord Byron

Fair as the crowning rose of the whole wreath.
—Lord Byron

Fair, as the first that fell of womankind.
—Lord Byron

Fair as the forest.
—Alice Cary

Fair as Ambition’s dream, or Beauty’s face.
—Thomas Chatterton

Faire as is the bryghte morwe [morning].
—Geoffrey Chaucer

Faire as is the rose in May.
—Geoffrey Chaucer

Fair as Eden’s bowers.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fair, as the bosom of the swan.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fair withal, as spirits are.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Fair as any goddess who sweeps through the Ivory Gate.
—Mortimer Collins

As fair as truth.
—Barry Cornwall

Fair as cygnet’s down.
—Nathaniel Cotton

Fair as light in heaven, or flowers in spring.
—Allan Cunningham

Fair as Spenser’s dream.
—Sydney Dobell

Fair as those old fields we knew.
—Sydney Dobell

Fair as a sculptor’s marble dream.
—Julia C. R. Dorr

Fair as the morning’s snow.
—Ancient Erse

As honor fair.
—William Falconer

As Cynthia fair.
—Francis Fawkes

Fair… as all the flowers of May.
—Francis Fawkes

Fair as the flowers themselves.
—John Fletcher

Fair as Aurora.
—Alice A. Folger

A face as fair as summer skies,
Where many a blush in ambush lies.
—H. B. Freeman

Fair as a young maid asleep beneath new fallen snow.
—Théphile Gautier

Fair as the dawn in the spring time.
—Giacosa and Illica

Fair as Paphos’ brooks.
—Robert Greene

Fair as Helen, Sparta’s pride.
—Arthur Guiterman

Fair as the Spring.
—Walter Harte

Fair as the summer’s evening skies.
—Walter Harte

Fair she is as foam-born Venus.
—Heinrich Heine

Fair, Lady Mary, as a lily in the sun.
—Henry Helford

Fair as Eve in Paradise.
—Robert Herrick

Fair as a god.
—Homer (Pope)

Fair as the new-born star that gilds the morn.
—Homer (Pope)

Fair is she as the dreams young poets weave.
—Thomas Hood

Fair as the wave-bleached lily of the stream.
—Thomas Hood

Fair … as the spotless moon upon the midnight sea.
—Horace

She as fair as any shepherdess
That ever was in mask or Christmas scene.
—William Dean Howells

Fair as a woodland flower.
—Mary Johnston

Fair as some wonder out of fairy land.
—John Keats

Fairer than Phœbe’s sapphire-region’d star.
—John Keats

As fair,
As Sion in her height of pride.
—John Keble

Fair as a flower, and faded just as soon.
—Omar Khayyám

Fair as the sun.
—Charles Kingsley

Fair as bar of gold.
—Rudyard Kipling

Fair as Aphrodite rising from the deep-blue Grecian sea.
—Sigmund Krasinski

Fair as the moonlight.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon

Fair as original light first from the chaos shot.
—Richard Lovelace

You’re fair and fresh as a morning in May.
—Samuel Lover

Fair as the garden of God.
—Lord Lyttelton

Fair as bride to altar lead.
—Evan MacColl

Fair as a Seraph.
—George Mac-Henry

Fair as the whitest snow on Scythian hills.
—Christopher Marlowe

O, thou art fairer than the evening air,
Clad in the beauty of a thousand stars.
—Christopher Marlowe

Fair as the spirit of the evening star.
—Gerald Massey

Fair as dreams.
—Owen Meredith

She is fair as the spirit of light,
That floats in the ether on high.
—Adam Mickiewicz

Fair as flame.
—Richard Monckton Milnes

Fair as the noon sky.
—John Milton

Fair as Orion.
—James Montgomery

Fair as the rainbow shines through darkening showers.
—James Montgomery

Fair as the Moon’s unclouded light.
—Edward Moore

Your face is as fair and bright
As the foam on the wave in the morning light.
—Lewis Morris

Fair as the lightning thwart the sky,
As sun-dyed snow upon the high
Untrodden heaps of threatening stone
The eagle looks upon alone.
—William Morris

Fair as an angel from the unknown land.
—Dinah Maria Mulock

She is as fair as a peach.
—Miles O’Reilly

Fair he was, like the rainbow of heaven.
—Ossian

Fair as the summer-beauty of the fields.
—Thomas Otway

Fairer than snow on the raven’s back.
—Thomas Otway

Fair as youth and love.
—Sir Joseph Noel Paton

Fair as a musk-willow forest.
—Persian

Fair like the rose, ’midst paling flowers the queen.
—Petrarch

As the opening blossom fair.
—Matthew Prior

Fair, like goddesses.
—François Rabelais

A face as fair as the summer dawn.
—James Whitcomb Riley

Fine and fair as your school-boy sweetheart’s hair.
—James Whitcomb Riley

Fair as a bridal chamber.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti

Fair thou art as moonrise after rain.
—Christina Georgina Rossetti

Fair as the flowers that maidens pluck for an hour’s delight.
—Dante Gabriel Rossetti

Maiden fair as a silvery dream.
—Francis S. Saltus

Fair as the summer.
—Hayden Sands

Fair as the earliest beam of eastern light.
—Sir Walter Scott

Fair as any mother’s child.
—William Shakespeare

Fair as day.
—William Shakespeare

Fair as text B in a copy-book.
—William Shakespeare

Her face as fair as tho’ she had look’d on Paradise, and caught its early beauty.
—William Shakespeare

Fair as breathing marble.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Eyes as fair as star-beams among twilight trees.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fair as the fabulous asphodels.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fairer than any wakened eyes behold.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Fair, like stars when the moon is awakened.
—Percy Bysshe Shelley

Like great god Saturne faire.
—Sir Philip Sidney

As fair as the first beams of the morning.
—Romanian Song

Faire as Phœbus sunne.
—Edmund Spenser

Fair as a fairy.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fair as a field in flower.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fair as all that the world may call most fair, save only the sea’s own face.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fair as any poison-flower
Whose blossom blights the withering bower
Whereon its blasting breath has power.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fair as a star-shaped flower.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fair as dawn.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fair as dreams that die and know not what they were.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fair as even the wakening skies.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fair as flame.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fair as fled foam.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fair as heaven in spring.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fair as hope divines.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fair as life.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fair as peace.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Clean and fair
As sunlight and the flowerful air.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fair as the ambient gold of wall-flowers.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fair as the eyes are fair.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fair as the face of the star-clothed night.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fair as the frondage each fleet year sees fade.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fair as the morning.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fair as the sunbright air.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fair as the sundawn’s flame
Seen when May on her first-born day bids earth exult in her radiant name.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fair as the world’s old faith of flowers.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fair as thine eye’s beam
Hidden and shown in heaven.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fair as thought could dream.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fair as youth.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Fair as some Arcadian dell.
—Bayard Taylor

Fair as the last star that leaves the morning air.
—Bayard Taylor

Fair as the loveliest landscape of pastoral England.
—Bayard Taylor

Fairer than Rachel by the palmy well,
Fairer than Ruth among the fields of corn.
—Alfred Tennyson

Fair as the moon.
—Old Testament

Fair as the daughters of Job.
—Old Testament

Fair as lily leaves.
—John T. Trowbridge

Fair as the day that bodes as fair a morrow.
—August von Platen

Fair as a statue of marble.
—Michael Vörösmarty

Fair as a gorgeous fabric of the East.
—Michael Vörösmarty

Fair as the primrose mead, or blushing rose.
—Thomas Warton

Fair as in Mirza’s Bagdad dream.
—John Greenleaf Whittier

Fair
As Pison was to Eden’s pair.
—John Greenleaf Whittier

Fairer than the day, or the flowery meads in May.
—George Withers

Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.
—William Wordsworth

Fair as beams of light.
—Thomas Yalden