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Famous Poetic Metaphors

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A narrow Fellow in the Grass Occasionally rides -

Emily Dickinson - 'A narrow Fellow in the Grass'

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by.

Robert Frost - 'The Road Not Taken'

Hope is the thing with feathers - That perches in the soul.

Emily Dickinson - 'Hope is the thing with feathers'

The world is but a canvas to our imagination.

Henry David Thoreau - from his journal

The Mind is an Enchanted Thing - like the glaze on a katydid-wing

Emily Dickinson - 'The Mind is an Enchanted Thing'

The stars are the street lights of eternity.

Unknown - This metaphor is often cited but not attributed to a specific poem or poet.

She walks in beauty, like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies;

Lord Byron - 'She Walks in Beauty'

Fog comes on little cat feet.

Carl Sandburg - 'Fog'

O my Luve is like a red, red rose That’s newly sprung in June.

Robert Burns - 'A Red, Red Rose'

But all the clocks in the city Began to whirr and chime: 'O let not Time deceive you, You cannot conquer Time.'

W.H. Auden - 'As I Walked Out One Evening'

Dying is an art, like everything else. I do it exceptionally well.

Sylvia Plath - 'Lady Lazarus'

Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, That struts and frets his hour upon the stage

William Shakespeare - 'Macbeth'

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Nathaniel Hawthorne - from his notebooks

My love is like to ice, and I to fire:

Edmund Spenser - 'Amoretti Sonnet 30'

His soul sat tight in its husk, as a kernel in a hard, green fruit.

Ted Hughes - 'Hawk Roosting'

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