Glowworms

"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."

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

"My star, God's glowworm."

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

"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."

"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."