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Frank J. Wilstach, comp.  A Dictionary of Similes.  1916.
 
Glow (Verb)
 
  Her eye balls … glowed like flaming carbuncles.
            —William H. Ainsworth		  1
  Glow like a blacksmith’s forge.
            —Anonymous		  2
  Glowing like molten iron.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Glow like the gates of the New Jerusalem.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Glow like the golden fleece.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Glow like the vernal grass.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Glow and glimmer soft as ocean blush of Indian shells.
            —Mathilde Blind		  7
  Cheeks glow red as tomatoes.
            —Robert Browning		  8
  Glowing in the green, like flakes of fire.
            —William Cullen Bryant		  9
                Glow,
As if her veins ran lightning.
            —Lord Byron		  10
  Aglow, like fruit when it colors.
            —William Canton		  11
  Glow … like a pool of flaming blood.
            —Joseph Conrad		  12
  Glowing like sunset-clouds upon the borders of the Tappan-Zee.
            —Frederick S. Cozzens		  13
  Glows like a painter’s palette.
            —T. W. H. Crosland		  14
  Glows as some rain-burnished rose.
            —Lord De Tabley		  15
  Glowed like June.
            —Sir Charles Gavan Duffy		  16
  Glow like adoration.
            —Ebenezer Elliott		  17
  Blush and glow like angel’s wings.
            —Ebenezer Elliott		  18
  Glow like webs of golden tissue in the sun.
            —Frederick William Faber		  19
  Glow like twin roses in the verdant bush.
            —Francis Fawkes		  20
  Glowin’ like a circus poster.
            —Sewell Ford		  21
  Glowing like a bride robed to meet the bridal hour.
            —S. Gertrude Ford		  22
  Glow … like Laura’s cheek when blushes rise.
            —John Gay		  23
  I glow as with new wine.
            —Johann Wolfgang von Goethe		  24
  Glowed like a household fire.
            —Nathaniel Hawthorne		  25
  Glows like a red flame in the dark.
            —Nathaniel Hawthorne		  26
  Glowed like sunshine.
            —Nathaniel Hawthorne		  27
Glowed like a coal,
In the throat of the furnace.
            —William Ernest Henley		  28
  Glows like a kiln.
            —William Ernest Henley		  29
  Soft and glowing as a summer’s eve.
            —Henrik Hertz		  30
  Glow like a queen’s missal.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  31
  Glowed like the morn beneath Aurora’s wings.
            —Oliver Wendell Holmes		  32
  Glows like the old prophets.
            —Josiah Gilbert Holland		  33
  Glow like fiery meteors.
            —Homer (Pope)		  34
                Golden glow,
Like Iris just bedabbled in her bow.
            —Thomas Hood		  35
  Glow like a self-enkindled star.
            —Lemuel Hopkins		  36
  Glows, like a peak at dawn.
            —Victor Hugo		  37
  Glow like flashing seas of green.
            —Helen Hunt Jackson		  38
                Glow
Like the northern lights on snow.
            —John Keats		  39
  Glows like the diamond in the presence of radium.
            —Andrew Lang		  40
  Glowed like angels in the sun.
            —Gerald Massey		  41
  Glowed like a watch fire in the Wilderness.
            —Gerald Massey		  42
  Glowing imperial as the sun-toucht rose.
            —Gerald Massey		  43
  Glowing like anthracite coal.
            —Donald G. Mitchell		  44
  Glowed like a torch amid creation’s tomb.
            —James Montgomery		  45
  In youthful beauty glows,
Like Phœbus, when he bends to cast
  His beams upon a rose.
            —Thomas Moore		  46
  Glowed like the arbutus or beech of the Umbrian hills.
            —John Henry Newman		  47
  Glow like paint on death’s shrunk cheek.
            —Miles O’Reilly		  48
  Jewels … glowing like sunbeams.
            —Ouida		  49
  The Court, it glows, and shines like rotten wood.
            —Sir Walter Raleigh		  50
  Glows like a golden group of buttercups.
            —T. Buchanan Read		  51
Glowed, like great archangels moving slow
On some celestial road.
            —T. Buchanan Read		  52
  Her white forehead glowed like a rose.
            —Charles Reade		  53
  Glow like a flower.
            —Christina Georgina Rossetti		  54
  Glowed like the first splendors of the morn.
            —José Selgas		  55
  Glowed like plated Mars.
            —William Shakespeare		  56
  Glows like solid amethyst.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  57
  Glowing like the vital morn.
            —Percy Bysshe Shelley		  58
                Glow
As a heart burns with some divine thing done.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  59
  Glow … like the sunset’s flush on a field of snow.
            —Bayard Taylor		  60
  Glows, like baker’s oven.
            —William Tennant		  61
  Glowed as a cloud worn thin.
            —Walter Thornbury		  62
  Glow like a great pearl.
            —John. C. Van Dyke		  63
  With beauty glows like that of Venus, where she rose naked in blushing charms from Ocean’s hoary wave.
            —Joseph Warton		  64
 
 
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