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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		  1
  Light as flake of foam.
            —Hans Christian Andersen		  2
  Light and clean as the foaming surf that the wind severs from the broken wave.
            —Anonymous		  3
  Light and speedy as a steam-roller.
            —Anonymous		  4
  Light as a fly.
            —Anonymous		  5
  Light as a sack of feathers.
            —Anonymous		  6
  Light as down.
            —Anonymous		  7
  Passed as light as October leaves blown over the forest floor.
            —Anonymous		  8
  Light as the leaf of the aspen.
            —Anonymous		  9
  Light as the bow with its gay blossoms springing.
            —Anonymous		  10
  Light as the spider’s silken lair.
            —Anonymous		  11
  Light as thistledown.
            —Anonymous		  12
  Light as vain praise.
            —Anonymous		  13
  Light as whipped cream.
            —Anonymous		  14
  Oaths as light as wind.
            —Anonymous		  15
  Light enough to float in the sweat of an ice pitcher.
            —Anonymous		  16
  Light-hearted as a robin.
            —Anonymous		  17
  As light as leafe on tree.
            —Old English Ballad		  18
  Light as hope.
            —Charles Pierre Baudelaire		  19
  Light as a wind-blown leaf.
            —Charlotte Becker		  20
  Light as cobwebs.
            —R. D. Blackmore		  21
  Light-footed as a hare.
            —Hjalmar Hjorth Boyesen		  22
  Light as the fabric which swells in the ambient air.
            —Samuel Boyse		  23
  Light as a feather whisk.
            —Robert Browning		  24
  Light as the whispers of a dream.
            —William Cullen Bryant		  25
Light as a faint wreath of snow
That tremblest to fall in the wind.
            —Robert Buchanan		  26
  Light as day.
            —John Bunyan		  27
  Light as any lambie.
            —Robert Burns		  28
  Light as a Nereid in her ocean sledge.
            —Lord Byron		  29
  Light as dreams.
            —Giosuè Carducci		  30
  Light as gossamer.
            —Thomas Carlyle		  31
  Light as winds that stir the willow.
            —Alice Cary		  32
  Light as leef on lynde.
            —Geoffrey Chaucer		  33
  Light as the busy clouds.
            —Samuel Taylor Coleridge		  34
  Light as the sea-fowl rocking in the storm.
            —James Fenimore Cooper		  35
  Light as froth.
            —John Davies		  36
  Light as a snowflake.
            —Austin Dobson		  37
  Light as an empty dream at break of day.
            —John Dryden		  38
  Light as the vapours of a morning dream.
            —John Dryden		  39
  Light as the light.
            —George Farquhar		  40
  Light as air.
            —Henry Fielding		  41
  Light as the feather on the head of beaux.
            —John Gay		  42
  Light as vapor.
            —Richard Hovey		  43
  Light like a sunbeam shattered into mist.
            —Richard Hovey		  44
  Light-hearted as a boy.
            —Richard Hovey		  45
  Light as a rustling foot on last year’s leaves.
            —Jean Ingelow		  46
  Light … as cork.
            —Henry James		  47
  Light as love’s angel.
            —Letitia Elizabeth Landon		  48
  Light as fairy footsteps.
            —Evan MacColl		  49
As light as a leaf unbound
From the grasp of its parent tree.
            —Ernest McGaffey		  50
  Light as the flying seed-ball.
            —George Meredith		  51
Light as a bubble that flies from the tub,
Whisked by the laundry-wife out of her suds.
            —George Meredith		  52
Steps … light as though a winged angel trod,
Over earth’s flowers, and feared to brush away,
Their delicate hues.
            —Henry Hart Milman		  53
Light as the angel shapes that bless
An infant’s dream.
            —Thomas Moore		  54
  Light as the bridegrooms bound to their young loves.
            —Thomas Moore		  55
  Light and feathery as squirrel-tails.
            —John Muir		  56
  Light as the breeze that brushed the orient dew.
            —Samuel Rogers		  57
Light as the tinkling leaves, that wander wide
When Vallombrosa mourns her pride.
            —John Ruskin		  58
  Light as a happy wave.
            —Friedrich von Schiller		  59
  Light as the dancing skiff borne on the silvery tide.
            —Friedrich von Schiller		  60
  Light as the rainbow’s leap into space.
            —Friedrich von Schiller		  61
  Light as a beam of Dian.
            —Owen Seaman		  62
  Trifles light as air.
            —William Shakespeare		  63
  Light as the mote that danceth in the beam.
            —H. and J. Smith		  64
  Light as a feather.
            —Sophocles		  65
  Light as a lady’s plumes.
            —Robert Southey		  66
  Light as a robe of peace.
            —Robert Southey		  67
  Light as a warrior’s summer-garb in peace.
            —Robert Southey		  68
  Light as a laugh of glee.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  69
  Heart is as light as a leaf on a tree.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  70
  Light as a spring south-wind.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  71
  Light as foam.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  72
  Light as laugh of flame.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  73
  Light as riotous insolence.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  74
  A hand at the door taps light as the hand of my heart’s delight.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  75
  Light as the spray that disperses.
            —Algernon Charles Swinburne		  76
  Light as floating leaf of orchard snow, loosed by the pulse of Spring.
            —Bayard Taylor		  77
  Gallop … light as any antelope upon the hills of the Gavilòn.
            —Bayard Taylor		  78
  Light as the singing bird that wings the air.
            —Alfred Tennyson		  79
  Light as a dry leaf in the winter woods.
            —Celia Thaxter		  80
  A step as light as the summer air.
            —John Greenleaf Whittier		  81
  Light as a buoyant bark from wave to wave.
            —William Wordsworth		  82
  Light as a sunbeam glides along the hills.
            —William Wordsworth		  83
 
 
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