Comparisons are few and not very poetic. In Songs of the Heart--
The lady of the land watered herself with her heart's tears.
Her eyes rained upon the child.
Her joy was drowned in lamentation.
Gawan and Orgeluse,
Spite their outer sweetness, as disagreeable as a shower of rain in sunshine.
There were many fair flowers, but their colours could not compare with that of Orgeluse.
His heroes are specially fond of birds. Young Parzival
Felt little care while the little birds sang round him; it made his heart swell, he ran weeping into the house.
and Gawan
Found a door open into a garden; he stept in to look round and enjoy the air and the singing of the birds.
So we see that in the Nibelungenlied scarcely a plant grew, and Hartmann and Wolfram's gardens belonged almost entirely to an unreal region; there are no traces of a very deep feeling for Nature in all this.
But Gottfried von Strassburg, with his vivid, sensuous imagination and keen eye for beauty, shewed a distinct advance both in taste and achievement. He, too, notes time briefly: 'And as it drew towards evening,' 'Now day had broke.' He repeats his comparisons: fair ladies are 'the wonder rose of May,' 'the longing white rose.' The two Isolts are sun and dawn. Brangäne is the full moon. The terrified girl is thus described: