The phrase 'lit candle' is correct and can be used in written English.
You can use it to refer to a candle that has been lit and is burning. For example: "The room was filled with the warmth of the lit candle."
On the nightstand there was a syringe and a spoon and a lit candle.
No more tramadol either since I set my hair on fire on a lit candle".
A lit candle was penetrated inside me, they cut off my clitoris and they raped me.
The teacher emerged in a nightcap, carrying a lit candle on a brass candlestick.
He discovered McQueen's body in the second bedroom, where a lit candle was still burning on the floor.
There, he left a lit candle and a small white bouquet of flowers with a red rose in the middle.
Color photograph of a birthday cake with fourteen lit candles and a pair of white legs.
Amid lit candles, behind a white curtain, the pastor bestowed words of forgiveness.
''It's late," I said again to the man, and I made two gin rickeys and lit candles.
Lit candles and flowers appeared as a final paean to "Checkers and Chess," as the tanks were affectionately nicknamed.
You know hygge – the Danish idea of cosiness, which saw us wrapped in flammable blankets while surrounded by lit candles.
