Glowworms Quotes

“My star, God's glowworm.”

“Here's a health to the glow-worm, Death's sober lamplighter.”

“While many a glowworm in the shade
Lights up her love torch.”

“Glow-worms on the ground are moving,
As if in the torch-dance circling.”

“Till glowworms light owl-watchmen's flight
Through our green metropolis.”

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“For, as you know, religions are like glow-worms; they shine only when it is dark.”

“The glow-worm shows the matin to be near,
And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire.”

“Tasteful illumination of the night,
Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth.”

“Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,
But look'd too near have neither heat nor light.”

“Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge,
The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the dark,
A moving radiance twinkles.”

“Ye country comets, that portend
No war nor princes' funeral
Shining unto no other end
Than to presage the grass's fall.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Ye living lamps, by whose dear light
The nightingale does sit so late;
And studying all the summer night,
Her matchless songs does meditate.”

“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.”