Frank J. Wilstach, comp. A Dictionary of Similes. 1916.
Light (Adjective)
Light as the leaf that summer’s breeze
Has wafted o’er the glassy seas.
—Anacreon
Light as flake of foam.
—Hans Christian Andersen
Light and clean as the foaming surf that the wind severs from the broken wave.
—Anonymous
Light and speedy as a steam-roller.
—Anonymous
Light as a fly.
—Anonymous
Light as a sack of feathers.
—Anonymous
Light as down.
—Anonymous
Passed as light as October leaves blown over the forest floor.
—Anonymous
Light as the leaf of the aspen.
—Anonymous
Light as the bow with its gay blossoms springing.
—Anonymous
Light as the spider’s silken lair.
—Anonymous
Light as thistledown.
—Anonymous
Light as vain praise.
—Anonymous
Light as whipped cream.
—Anonymous
Oaths as light as wind.
—Anonymous
Light enough to float in the sweat of an ice pitcher.
—Anonymous
Light-hearted as a robin.
—Anonymous
As light as leafe on tree.
—Old English Ballad
Light as hope.
—Charles Pierre Baudelaire
Light as a wind-blown leaf.
—Charlotte Becker
Light as cobwebs.
—R. D. Blackmore
Light-footed as a hare.
—Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen
Light as the fabric which swells in the ambient air.
—Samuel Boyse
Light as a feather whisk.
—Robert Browning
Light as the whispers of a dream.
—William Cullen Bryant
Light as a faint wreath of snow
That tremblest to fall in the wind.
—Robert Buchanan
Light as day.
—John Bunyan
Light as any lambie.
—Robert Burns
Light as a Nereid in her ocean sledge.
—Lord Byron
Light as dreams.
—Giosuè Carducci
Light as gossamer.
—Thomas Carlyle
Light as winds that stir the willow.
—Alice Cary
Light as leef on lynde.
—Geoffrey Chaucer
Light as the busy clouds.
—Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Light as the sea-fowl rocking in the storm.
—James Fenimore Cooper
Light as froth.
—John Davies
Light as a snowflake.
—Austin Dobson
Light as an empty dream at break of day.
—John Dryden
Light as the vapours of a morning dream.
—John Dryden
Light as the light.
—George Farquhar
Light as air.
—Henry Fielding
Light as the feather on the head of beaux.
—John Gay
Light as vapor.
—Richard Hovey
Light like a sunbeam shattered into mist.
—Richard Hovey
Light-hearted as a boy.
—Richard Hovey
Light as a rustling foot on last year’s leaves.
—Jean Ingelow
Light … as cork.
—Henry James
Light as love’s angel.
—Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Light as fairy footsteps.
—Evan MacColl
As light as a leaf unbound
From the grasp of its parent tree.
—Ernest McGaffey
Light as the flying seed-ball.
—George Meredith
Light as a bubble that flies from the tub,
Whisked by the laundry-wife out of her suds.
—George Meredith
Steps … light as though a winged angel trod,
Over earth’s flowers, and feared to brush away,
Their delicate hues.
—Henry Hart Milman
Light as the angel shapes that bless
An infant’s dream.
—Thomas Moore
Light as the bridegrooms bound to their young loves.
—Thomas Moore
Light and feathery as squirrel-tails.
—John Muir
Light as the breeze that brushed the orient dew.
—Samuel Rogers
Light as the tinkling leaves, that wander wide
When Vallombrosa mourns her pride.
—John Ruskin
Light as a happy wave.
—Friedrich von Schiller
Light as the dancing skiff borne on the silvery tide.
—Friedrich von Schiller
Light as the rainbow’s leap into space.
—Friedrich von Schiller
Light as a beam of Dian.
—Owen Seaman
Trifles light as air.
—William Shakespeare
Light as the mote that danceth in the beam.
—H. and J. Smith
Light as a feather.
—Sophocles
Light as a lady’s plumes.
—Robert Southey
Light as a robe of peace.
—Robert Southey
Light as a warrior’s summer-garb in peace.
—Robert Southey
Light as a laugh of glee.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Heart is as light as a leaf on a tree.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Light as a spring south-wind.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Light as foam.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Light as laugh of flame.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Light as riotous insolence.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
A hand at the door taps light as the hand of my heart’s delight.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Light as the spray that disperses.
—Algernon Charles Swinburne
Light as floating leaf of orchard snow, loosed by the pulse of Spring.
—Bayard Taylor
Gallop … light as any antelope upon the hills of the Gavilòn.
—Bayard Taylor
Light as the singing bird that wings the air.
—Alfred Tennyson
Light as a dry leaf in the winter woods.
—Celia Thaxter
A step as light as the summer air.
—John Greenleaf Whittier
Light as a buoyant bark from wave to wave.
—William Wordsworth
Light as a sunbeam glides along the hills.
—William Wordsworth