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Each like a corpse within its grave Each moment was an iridescent bubble fresh-blown from the lips of fancy Eager-hearted as a boy Eager with the headlong zest of a hunter for the game Ears that seemed as deaf as dead man's ears Easy as a poet's dream Emotions flashed across her face like the sweep of sun-rent clouds over a quiet landscape Eternal as the skies Evanescent as bubbles [evanescent = vanishing like vapor] Every flake that fell from heaven was like an angel's kiss Every lineament was clear as in the sculptor's thought [lineament = characteristic feature] Everyone on the watch, like a falcon on its nest Every phrase is like the flash of a scimitar Exploded like a penny squib Eyes as deeply dark as are the desert skies Eyes as luminous and bright and brown as waters of a woodland river Eyes half veiled by slumberous tears, like bluest water seen through mists of rain Eyes like a very dark topaz Eyes like deep wells of compassionate gloom Eyes like limpid pools in shadow Eyes like mountain water that o'erflowing on a rock <h4 id="id09415" style="margin-top: 2em">F</h4> Faces pale with bliss, like evening stars Fade away like a cloud in the horizon Faint and distant as the light of a sun that has long set Faintly, like a falling dew Fair and fleet as a fawn Fair as a star when only one is shining in the sky Fallen like dead leaves on the highway Falling away like a speck in space Fanciful and extravagant as a caliph's dream Fawning like dumb neglected lap-dogs Felt her breath upon his cheek like a perfumed air Fields of young grain and verdured pastures like crushed velvet Fierce as a bear in defeat Fierce as the flames Fills life up like a cup with bubbling and sparkling liquor Fit closely together as the close-set stones of a building Fix'd like a beacon-tower above the waves of a tempest Flame like a flag unfurled Flap loose and slack like a drooping sail Flashed with the brilliancy of a well-cut jewel Fled like sweet dreams Fleet as an arrow Flitted like a sylph on wings Flowers as soft as thoughts of budding love Fluent as a rill, that wanders silver-footed down a hill Fluid as thought Fluttered like gilded butterflies in giddy mazes Fragile as a spider's web Free as the air, from zone to zone I flew Free as the winds that caress Fresh and unworn as the sea that breaks languidly beside them Fresh as a jewel found but yesterday Fresh as the first beam glittering on a sail Frightened like a child in the dark Full-throated as the sea Furious as eagles <h4 id="id09452" style="margin-top: 2em">G</h4> Gazed like a star into the morning light Glaring like noontide Gleam like a diamond on a dancing girl Glistening like threads of gold Glitter like a swarm of fire-flies tangled in a silver braid Glittering like an aigrette of stars [aigrette = ornamental tuft of upright plumes] Gone astray as a sheep that is lost Gone like a glow on the cloud at the close of day Gone like tenants that quit without warning Gorgeous as the hues of heaven Grazing through a circulating library as contentedly as cattle in a fresh meadow Great scarlet poppies lay in drifts and heaps, like bodies fallen there in vain assault <h4 id="id09465" style="margin-top: 2em">H</h4> <div style="break-after:column;"></div>

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