See Also: GLITTER AND GLOSS, LIGHTING, SHINING

1. Blazing like the windows of the city —James Dickey
2. (He possessed a brainful of information,) bright and beautiful as diamonds swaddled in midnight-blue velvet —W. P. Kinsella
3. Bright and light as the crest of a peacock —Alfred, Lord Tennyson
4. Bright and pleasing as a child’s rattle —Virginia Woolf
5. Bright as a beach in the moonlight —Alfred Austin
6. (An image came to me across the years,) bright as a coin from the mint —Norman Mailer
7. Bright as a frog’s eyes —Hart Crane
8. Bright as all between cloudless skies and windless streams —Percy Bysshe Shelley
9. Bright as a nettle rash —Diane Ackerman
10. (Laugh … ) bright as a new ensign’s buttons —Frederic Wakeman
11. Bright as a newly painted toy —Hugh Walpole
12. Bright as an icon —Margaret Atwood
13. Bright as any glass —Geoffrey Chaucer
14. Bright as any meteor ever bred by the North Pole —Lord Byron
15. Bright as a parakeet —Dame Edith Sitwell
16. (Every day) bright as a postcard —Karl Shapiro
17. Bright as a roomful of chrystal chandeliers —Anon
18. Bright as a splinter from a glazier’s table —Beryl Markham
19. (A face) bright as a waterdrop —Padraic Fallon
20. Bright as day —Geoffrey Chaucer
21. Bright as foil —Molly Giles
22. Bright as freedom —Marge Piercy
23. Bright as joy —Hartley Coleridge
24. Bright as light —Alfred, Lord Tennyson
25. Bright as moonlight over snow —Wallace Stegner
26. Bright as Spring —Walter Savage Landor
27. (Eyes as) bright as the Dipper —Stephen Vincent Benét
28. Bright as the fullest moon in blackest air —Arabian Nights
29. Bright as the promises of a new administration —Elyse Sommer
30. Bright as the promise of life on commencement day —Elyse Sommer
31. Bright as the promise of a cloudless day —C. P. Wilson
32. Bright as the raindrops and roses in June —Dame Edith Sitwell
33. Bright as the world was in its infant years —John Banks
34. Bright as truth —Barry Cornwall
35. Bright like a brimming bowl of jewels —Peter De Vries
36. Bright, like a flash of sunlight —Edward Bulwer-Lytton
37. Bright (eyes) like agate —D. H. Lawrence
38. Bright like blood —Algernon Charles Swinburne
39. Brightness … bright as dipper —Stephen Vincent Benet
40. Brilliant as a postage stamp —Lawrence Durrell
41. (Eyes) brilliant as fire —Nadine Gordimer
42. [Oranges and grapefruits] brilliant as planets —Cynthia Ozick
43. Brilliant as the stars —Ouida
44. Brilliant as the sun —Slogan, Lustberg-Nast, Lustray shirts
45. Brilliant like a Chinese porcelain —W. Somerset Maugham
46. Brilliantly, gaudily colored as a Gypsy camp —Kate Simon
47. Dazzled the eyes like a second noonday sun —Edna Ferber
48. Growing brighter and brighter like a forest after a rain —Denis Johnson
49. Lights up like a Star Wars pinball machine —Marge Piercy
50. [Face] light up like a bonfire of joy —Carl Sandburg
51. Vivid as sun through a thin brown bottle —Reynolds Price
52. Vivid as the granules of paint in a Dubuffet —John Updike