Alight/Alit.
( Light )Late November's agate-light - Chris Dombrowski "The Roofers Listen to Heart's "Crazy on You" as They Work"
Beacon-lights of ages fled - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"
Switched on a black light in the sky - Monica Youn "Four Freedoms Park"
Candlelight.
Myriad corpse-lights glimmer on their way - W.I. "The Rocky Boulders of Cornwall" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.689, 10 March 1877]
Leaving a corpselight burning - Lola Ridge "Firehead part II: John: He walks at dawn in a wood without Jerusalem"
Daylight.
The crimson death-lights dance - Virna Sheard "Crosses"
Firelight.
Flashlight.
The moon's floodlights burning - Luisa A. Igloria "To unravel a torment you must begin somewhere"
spilled past the footlights - Leah Bobet "Notable Escapes"
Watch an entire reel of gaslight unfold - Yong-Yu Huang "City Lights as Myth"
At night when her gold-light is spent - Charles Swain "The Ship 'Extravagance'" [International Weekly Miscellany v.1 no.2, July 1850]
An oceanic circus of gray-light - Jonah Mixon-Webster "Territory"
Dusk-airs and breaths of half-light - Ivor Gurney "De Profundis"
Tapers burning in the dim half-light - Rennell Rodd "Atque in Perpetuum Frater Ave Atque Vale"
Quickly shifting puddles of purpler half-light - Keith Taylor "Marginalia for a Natural History"
Headlight.
Highlighted lessons and dog-eared parables - Camille T. Dungy "One to Watch, and One to Pray"
Highlights the potential for interruption - Elizabeth Torres "The Play"
Leave the highlights for last - Derek Walcott "The Light of the World"
Lamplight.
River sends her laughter-lights - Miriam Clark Potter "Bubbles"
Flip off this lightbox and its scroll of dread - Nickole Brown "A Prayer to Talk to Animals"
Lightbulb.
( Lighted )Lighten.
Lighter.
Lightest.
Light-Footed.
Gliding over sheets of light-glazed silver - Cyrus Cassells & Brian Turner "Corsair"
Lighthouse.
Lighting.
Lightless.
Lightly.
In lightness of wonder rise higher - Mary Aldis and Arthur Davison Ficke "Chloroform"
Possesses the pleasant lightness of tea - Joseph O. Legaspi "The Kisser's Handbook"
Not always in lightness, however - Henry S. Leigh "'Oh Nights and Suppers,' Etc."
The jasmine lightness of the moon - William Carlos Williams "To a Solitary Disciple"
The boortree and the lightsome ash across the portal grow - William Allingham "Abbey Asaroe"
What is born massless at light speed - Sandra J. Lindow "Finding the God Particle"
That scale the speed of light - Elizabeth Bartlett "City Game: Marbles"
Before accelerating toward the speed of light - Jim Heston "All Things Being Relative"
As if it were penicillin or the speed of light - Mark Jarman "If I Were Paul"
The first lightspray of detonated creation - Catherynne M. Valente "Mouse Koan"
Light Year.
Kicked at cardboard, gaped at red limelight - Aldous Huxley "The Ideal Found Wanting"
the limelight not meant for you - Megan Johnson "How it comes to pass"
Bruised by the stone glare of the limelight - Ada Limon "How to Give Up"
Tinged her eyes with love-light's dawning - F. Rochat "My Baby" [Chambers' Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, 4th series, no.710, 4 Aug. 1877]
these jangling night lights fixed to a spirit pleading - Dior J. Stephens "a letter to charlie parker"
Nightlights going unused in the swinging forests - G.E. Woods "Items Collected from Discarded Planet 5X.73: Terra"
When the Northlights shake their spears - James Russell Lowell "Credidimus Jovem Regnare"
By the flamethrower's pilot light - Connor Yeck "The Thing (1982) as Silent Film"
An angel lit by a red-light district - Shannan Mann "In Hell"
Can afford to burn a rushlight - Henry S. Leigh "An Old Cynic"
Searchlight.
Read poems by snow-light - Hilda Conkling "Poems"
Spotlight.
Streetlight.
Ajax stands in the Trojan torchlight - John M. Ford "Troy: the Movie"
By torch-light and alone - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "The Wonder of the World"
The eaves of the unlighted hall - J.R. Lowell "Ballad"
And the dead planets race unlighted - Francis Brett Young "Song [What is the worth of war]"
Unlighted through blind space - Francis Brett Young "Song [What is the worth of war]"
Forlorn as that unlighted chamber - Francis Brett Young "Thamar (To Thamar Karsavina)"
Watchful as window-light - Tarfia Faizullah "Acolyte"
Witch-lights of laughter - Clinton Dangerfield "Autumn"
The winterlight consumes the field - Taylor Johnson "Art Movie"
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