Glowworms

common name for various groups of insect larvae and adult larviform females that glow through bioluminescence

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

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

Quotes

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  • 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

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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.

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