Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Drift
Drifting like flakes of snow.
—Anonymous
Drift … lightly as a leaf.
—Philip James Bailey
Drifted, light-hearted and free, and proud, like the Bedouin.
—Steen S. Blicher
Weary drifting, driving like a helmless bark at sea.
—Alice Cary
Drifts on the blast, like a wind-wafted leaf,
O’er the gulfs of the desolate sea.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Drifting like a flake of fire
Rent by a whirlwind from a blazing spire.
—Oliver Wendell Holmes
Drifted like a scarlet feather
Torn from the folded wings of clouds.
—Jean Ingelow
Drifts like April snow.
—Amy Leslie
The snows are driven and drifted,
Like Tithonus’ beard
Streaming dishevelled and white.
—Henry W. Longfellow
Drift as wrecks on the tide.
—Henry W. Longfellow
Drifted as an unsteered log.
—William Morris
Drifting,
As the sands on sea-shore shifting.
—Ellen B. Peck
Drifted
Like foam or sandPast swamp and sallow.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Drift like satin moons.
—Oscar Wilde