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

Glad

Glad as one would give me a crown Anonymous

Glad as a fly.
—Arabian Nights

Every heart was glad,
As if the taxes were abolished.
—Thomas Lovell Beddoes

Glad as singing-birds.
—Elizabeth Barrett Browning

As glad as April skies.
—Eliza Cook

Glad as children come from school.
—George Gascoigne

As glad as fish that were but lately caught
And straight again were cast into the pool.
—George Gascoigne

Glad as the clay-red
Blaring of battle-horns.
—Richard Hovey

Glad as the bird up the summer vault singing.
—E. M. Kelly

Glad as the skylark’s earliest song.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon

His face as glad as dawn.
—Fiona Macleod

Glad, like the young spring’s earliest rose.
—James Clarence Mangan

Glad as a blossoming tree.
—Edwin Markham

Glad of life as leaves in spring.
—Josephine P. Peabody

Glad as a fowl of a fair day.
—English Proverb

Glad as brief delay.
—Sir Walter Scott

Glad as a bird whose flight is impelled and sustained by love.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Glad as the golden spring to greet
Its first live leaflet’s play.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne

Glad as a soul in pain, who hears from heaven
The angels singing of his sins forgiven.
—John Greenleaf Whittier

His voice as glad as April bird’s.
—John Greenleaf Whittier

Glad as fruition.
—C. P. Wilson

Glad as gardens.
—John Wilson