Similes for “beautiful”

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From “A Dictionary of Similes” by Frank J. Wilstach

Beautiful as a remembered single line of perfect poetry. (John Albee)

Beautiful as a chemical blonde. (Anonymous)

Beautiful as Adonis. (Anonymous)

Beautiful as a sunset. (Anonymous)

Beautiful as the dawn. (Anonymous)

Beautiful as the face of a young Greek god. (Anonymous)

Beautiful as the seraph’s dream. (Anonymous)

Beautiful as Zenobia. (Anonymous)

Beautiful as the bough of the myrobalan. (Arabian Nights)

Darkly beautiful as death. (Philip James Bailey)

Beautiful as a saint. (Honoré de Balzac)

Beautiful as the day. (Honoré de Balzac)

A note as beautiful as a thread of light. (Gustavo A. Becquér)

Beautiful as the curtain of Solomon. (Saint Bernard)

Beautiful as fire. (Ambrose Bierce)

Beautiful as ever looked, From white clouds in a dream. (William Cullen Bryant)

Beautiful as a feather in one’s cap. (Thomas Carlyle)

Beauteous as a summer’s morn. (Thomas Chatterton)

Beautiful as April rains. (William Cowper)

Beautiful as heaven. (John Day)

Beautiful as noon-day. (Charles Dickens)

Beautiful as a rainbow. (John Dryden)

Beautiful as a dying maid. (Ebenezer Elliott)

Beautiful as is the rose in June. (Ralph Waldo Emerson)

Beautiful … as childhood’s dream. (Frederick William Faber)

Beautiful as a fairy palace. (Nathaniel Hawthorne)

Beautiful as spring. (Gerard T. Hopkins)

Beautiful as the vernal willow. (Dr. Samuel Johnson)

Beautiful,… like a fairy pageant floating for a pastime on the tide. (Edward. C. Jones)

Beautiful as angels. (Jean Jules Jusserand)

Beautiful as an oriole. (John Keats)

Beautiful as May. (Henry W. Longfellow)

Beautiful as morning. (Henry W. Longfellow)

Beautiful like the Moon. (Mahabharata)

Beautiful as dawn in Heaven. (Gerald Massey)

As beautiful as ’twere a dewy flower. (George D. Prentice)

Beautiful as youth. (Dollie Radford)

Beautiful as an Olympian divinity. (George Rose)

Beautiful as a piece of chalk cliff. (John Ruskin)

Beautiful as pine bridges over Alpine streams. (John Ruskin)

Her face as beautiful as though the rays of Paradise were there. (Sadi)

Beautiful as sky and earth, When Autumn’s sun is downward going. (John Greenleaf Whittier)

Beauteous as the silver moon. (William Wordsworth)

Beautiful as heaven. (William Wordsworth)

Beauteous as the sun. (Edward Young)