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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
[edit]- 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.- Robert Herrick, Hesperides (1648), "The Night Piece to Julia".
- 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.- Paul Lincke, "Das Glühwürmchen" ("The Glow-Worm"), aria from Lysistrata (1902); expanded and revised by Johnny Mercer in 1952 for the Mills Brothers.
- Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,
But look'd too near have neither heat nor light.- John Webster, The White Devil (1612), Act IV, scene 4.
- For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark.
- Arthur Schopenhauer, Religion: A dialogue
Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
[edit]- 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.- William Allingham, Greenwood Tree.
- My star, God's glowworm.
- Robert Browning, Popularity.
- Tasteful illumination of the night,
Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth.- John Clare. To the Glowworm.
- While many a glowworm in the shade
Lights up her love torch.- Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Nightingale.
- Glow-worms on the ground are moving,
As if in the torch-dance circling.- Heinrich Heine, Book of Songs, Donna Clara, Stanza 17.
- Ye living lamps, by whose dear light
The nightingale does sit so late;
And studying all the summer night,
Her matchless songs does meditate.- Andrew Marvell, The Mower to the Glow-worm.
- Ye country comets, that portend
No war nor princes' funeral
Shining unto no other end
Than to presage the grass's fall.- Andrew Marvell, The Mower to the Glow-worm.
- Here's a health to the glow-worm, Death's sober lamplighter.
- Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton), Au Café, XXXIX.
- 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.- James Montgomery, The Glow-worm.
- The glow-worm shows the matin to be near,
And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire.- William Shakespeare, Hamlet (1600-02), Act I, scene 5, line 89.
- 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.- Percy Bysshe Shelley, To a Skylark.
- Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge,
The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the dark,
A moving radiance twinkles.- James Thomson, The Seasons, Summer (1727), line 1,682.