---
title: Times and Seasons
description: Issues of 1844 to 1845.
authors:
  - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
editors:
  - Ebenezer Robinson
  - Don Carlos Smith
  - Smith, Joseph, Jr.
  - Taylor, John
collections:
  - periodicals
tags:
  - newspaper
  - times-and-seasons
  - nauvoo
  - nineteenth-century
periodical: Times and Seasons
volume: 5
number: 16
published: 1844-09-01
publisher: E. Robinson and D. C. Smith; later John Taylor
publisher_place: Commerce and Nauvoo, Illinois
language: en
type: article
reference: "“A Sonnet on Light,” *Times and Seasons* 5, no. 16 (September 1, 1844): 639."
printed_title: A SONNET ON LIGHT.
source:
  url: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1844-09-01_5_16
  transcription: Text from the Centerplace.org transcription (https://www.centerplace.org/history/ts/v5n16.htm), with its page breaks; this Internet Archive scan is the reference copy (its OCR was used only as a witness for OCR repair)
  identifier: per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1844-09-01_5_16
start_page: 639
end_page: 639
curator_note: A Mormon newspaper published by the church in Nauvoo; included for historical study. Inclusion does not imply endorsement.
rights:
  status: public-domain
  basis: US publication 1844 (Nauvoo, Illinois); published before 1931, so public domain in the United States
  source: https://archive.org/details/per_utah-and-the-mormons_times-and-seasons_1844-09-01_5_16
  publication_year: 1844
---

# A Sonnet on Light

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BY W. W. PHELPS.

I saw the moon-light on the water, With light o'er light, AD INFINITUM,

Like diamond gems, or burnished gold; All glittering on each others sphers:-[sphere's]

I saw the brilliants on a woman,

All queenly tipt in sparkling pride:- But not a ray was half so brilliant

As when, o'er choas [chaos], God exclaim'd:

I saw the shining orbs of heaven, BE LIGHT! and light, pure light, came shining

As aided by a telescope, On earth-without a sun or moon.

The Times and Seasons,

Is Printed and Published about the first and fifteenth of every month, on the corner of Water and Bain streets, Nauvoo, Hancock county, Illinois, by JOHN TAYLOR, EDITOR AND PROPRIETOR.

Terms.-Two Dollars per annum, payable in all cases in advance. Any person procuring five new subscribers, and forwarding us Ten Dollars current money, shall receive one volume gratis. All letters must be addressed to John Taylor, editor, POST PAID, or they will not receive attention.