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

Yearn

Yearned as the parched land for summer’s rain.
—Anonymous

Yearn’d as the captive toiling at escape.
—Lord Byron

Yearning, like the first fierce impulse into crime.
—Thomas Hood

Yearning, like a swallow in the void.
—Trumbull Stickney

Yearning as with child of death.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne