Glowworms are various different groups of insect larvae and adult larviform females that glow through bioluminescence. They may sometimes resemble worms, but all are insects, primarily flies and beetleis

Quotes

  • Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee,
    The shooting stars attend thee;
    And the elves also,
    Whose little eyes glow
    Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.
  • Shine little glow-worm, glimmer, glimmer.
    Shine little glow-worm, glimmer, glimmer.
    Lead us lest too far we wander.
    Love's sweet voice is calling yonder.
  • Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,
    But look'd too near have neither heat nor light.
  • For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark.

Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations

Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 314-15.
  • Till glowworms light owl-watchmen's flight
    Through our green metropolis.
  • Tasteful illumination of the night,
    Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth.
  • Glow-worms on the ground are moving,
    As if in the torch-dance circling.
  • Ye living lamps, by whose dear light
    The nightingale does sit so late;
    And studying all the summer night,
    Her matchless songs does meditate.
  • Ye country comets, that portend
    No war nor princes' funeral
    Shining unto no other end
    Than to presage the grass's fall.
  • Here's a health to the glow-worm, Death's sober lamplighter.
  • When evening closes Nature's eye,
    The glow-worm lights her little spark
    To captivate her favorite fly
    And tempt the rover through the dark.
  • The glow-worm shows the matin to be near,
    And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
  • Like a glowworm golden, in a dell of dew,
    Scattering unbeholden its aërial blue
    Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view.
  • Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge,
    The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the dark,
    A moving radiance twinkles.

See also

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