Thy word is a lamp unto my feet, and a light unto my path.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Psalms119:105.

And all small fowlys singis on the spray: Welcum the lord of lycht and lamp of day.

-Douglas, Gavin
c.1513  Eneados, bk.12, prologue. English poet.  Only  one  volume  of  his  poems  was  published in his lifetime,  and he was  killed in action  shortly  after  the D-Day landings in Normandy.

Soul of my lie, and fame! Eternal lamp of love! whose radiant flame Out-glares the Heav'ns Osiris; and thy gleams Out-shine the splendour of his mid-day beams.

-Herrick, Robert
  'The Welcome to Sack'.

Let others drink thee freely; and desire Thee and their lips espous'd; while I admire, And love thee; but not taste thee. Let my Muse Fail of thy former helps; and only use Her inadult'rate strength: what's done by me Hereafter, shall smell of the lamp, not thee.

-Herrick, Robert
  'His Fare-well to Sack'.

Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore, Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed, to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

-Lazarus, Emma
  'The New Colossus', inscribed at the foot of the Statue of Liberty, NewYork harbour,1886.

A Lady with a Lamp shall stand In the great history of the land, A noble type of good, Heroic womanhood.

-Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
  Of Florence Nightingale.'Santa Filomena'.

The dark was talking to the dead; The lamp was dark beside my bed.

-MacNeice, (Frederick) Louis
Plant and Phantom,'Autobiography', l.13^14.

Thee I revisit safe, And feel thy sovran vital lamp; but thou Revisit'st not these eyes, that roll in vain To find thy piercing ray, and find no dawn; So thick a drop serene hath quenched their orbs, Or dim suffusion veiled.

-Milton,John
  Of his blindness. Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.3, l.22^7.

A pard-like Spirit, beautiful and swiftö A love in desolation masked;öa Power Girt round with weakness;öit can scarce uplift The weight of the superincumbent hour; It is a dying lamp, a falling shower, A breaking billow;öeven whilst we speak Is it not broken? Shelley

-Shelley, Percy Bysshe
Adonais, stanza 32.

Ishould haveno objectiontothismethod, butthat Ithink it must smell too strong of the lamp.

-Sterne, Laurence
^67  Toby.Tristram Shandy, bk.1, ch.23.

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

-Bojaxhiu
  In Time, 29 Dec.

'Tis midnight, falls the lamp-light dull and sickly On a pale and anxious crowd, Through the court, and round the judges thronging thickly, With prayers they dare not speak aloudö Two youths, two noble youths, stand prisoners at the barö You can see them through the gloomö In the pride of life and manhood's beauty, there they are Awaiting their death-doom.

-Wilde,Jane Francesca ne¤  e Elgee
'The Brothers'.

Even so for me a vision sanctified The sway of death; long ere my eyes had seen Thy countenanceöthe still rapture of thy mienö When thou, dear Sister! wert become death's bride: No trace of pain or languor could abide That changeöage on thy brow was smoothedöthy cold Wan cheek at once was privileged to unfold A loveliness to living youth denied. Oh! if within me hope should e'er decline, The lamp of faith, lost Friend! too faintly burn; The may that heaven-revealing smile of thine, The bright assurance, visibly return: And let my spirit in that power divine Rejoice, as, through that power, it ceased to mourn.

-Wordsworth,William
  'November1836', complete poem (published1837).