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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Firefly |
| Before, beside us, and above The firefly lights his lamp of love. Bishop Heber—Tour Through Ceylon. | 1 |
| Is it where the flow’r of the orange blows, And the fireflies dance thro’ the myrtle boughs? Mrs. Hemans—The Better Land. | 2 |
| And the fireflies, Wah-wah-taysee, Waved their torches to mislead him. Longfellow—Hiawatha. | 3 |
| The fireflies o’er the meadow In pulses come and go. Lowell—Midnight. St. 3. | 4 |
| Tiny Salmoneus of the air His mimic bolts the firefly threw. Lowell—The Lesson. | 5 |
| Now, motionless and dark, eluded search Self-shrouded: and anon, starring the sky, Rose like a shower of fire. Southey—Madoc. Pt. II. (Confounds the firefly with the lantern-fly.) | 6 |
| Many a night I saw the Pleiads rising thro’ the mellow shade, Glitter like a swarm of fireflies tangled in a silver braid. Tennyson—Locksley Hall. 9. | 7 |
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