See Also: NIGHT, SLOWNESS, TIME

1. The afternoon droops like a hot candle —Malcolm Cowley
2. The afternoon sways like an elephant —Babette Deutsch

   This begins a poem entitled July Day.

3. The beauty of the morning called to her like a signal bell —R. V. Cassill
4. Dawn came like a blanket of flowers —T. Coraghessan Boyle
5. The dawn came up like a Have-a-Nice-Day emblem —Tom Robbins
6. A day as fresh as spring itself —Wallace Stegner
7. (The next) day dawned like a yawning hole —Robert Barnard
8. The day drooped like a flag —Katherine Mansfield
9. The day goes by like a shadow over the heart (with sorrow where all was delight) —Stephen Foster

   From Stephen Foster’s famous “My Old Kentucky Home” with ‘over’ substituted from ‘o’er’ as in the original.

10. The day is flat and intense, like a photograph of itself —Marge Piercy
11. The day [Sunday] is like wide water, without sound —Wallace Stevens
12. Day like a bated breath —Sharon Sheehe Stark
13. A day like an endless empty sea —Delmore Schwartz
14. Days and nights were shuffling like lame and overweight cattle —Don Robertson
15. Days are scrolls: write on them what you want to be remembered —Bahya
16. Days … arrive like crows in a field of stubble corn —Robert Hass
17. The days dripped away like honey off a spoon —Wallace Stegner
18. Days … followed one another in an undistinguished series, growing and then fading like the leaves on a tree —Stefan Zweig
19. The days go by, like caterpillars do —Johnny Mercer, opening stanza from 1947 song, “Lazy Mood”
20. The days go by like film, like a long written scroll —Maxwell Anderson
21. Days … like a lengthening shadow —The Holy Bible/Psalms
22. The days, like the leaves, seemed to fly from the trees, as if this year was intent on its own destruction —Susan Fromberg Schaeffer
23. The day smelled like clear water —Joan Chase
24. The days pass by like a wayward tune —W. B. Yeats
25. Days pass like papers from a press —Wallace Stevens
26. The days slipped by … like apple parings under a knife —Stephen Vincent Benet
27. The days walking along higher and higher, like the way teachers line you up to have pictures taken —Lee Smith
28. The days were truly endless and seemed like a single black night —Barbara Reid
29. The day was dry, rather misty; like a day pictured in a Japanese print —Frank Swinnerton
30. The day was still, like a very glazed photograph —M. J. Farrell
31. Feel the pull of the long day, like a road he dragged behind him —Sharon Sheehe Stark
32. A fine morning makes you want to bust open like a pea pod —Joe Coomer
33. The gray winter morning descends like the huge lead-coated balloon —Jerry Bumpus
34. The middle of the day, like the middle of certain fruits, is good for nothing —Walter Savage Landor
35. Morning came like a stone breaking —Madison Smartt Bell
36. The morning crept out of a dark cloud like an unbidden guest uncertain of his welcome —W. Somerset Maugham
37. Morning … gray like a mouse —Jessamyn West
38. Morning hours of inactivity … like a beautiful sculpture-lined bridge across which I stroll from night into day, from dream into reality —Milan Kundera
39. (Night had died, and the) morning lay like a corpse. Like sadness, going from one end of the world to another, without a sound —Aharon Megged
40. My days are like a lengthening shadow —The Holy Bible/Psalms
41. One of those days that come as a surprise in the middle of winter, like a gift sent on no anniversary, so that the pleasure takes us unaware —Jean Stafford
42. Our days run as fast away as does the sun —Robert Herrick
43. Over the garden, day still hung like a pink flag —Elizabeth Bowen
44. The workday is finished, dead as the calendar page that bore its number —Beryl Markham