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| Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922. |
| Glowworm |
| Till glowworms light owl-watchmen’s flight Through our green metropolis. William Allingham—Greenwood Tree. | 1 |
| My star, God’s glowworm. Robert Browning—Popularity. | 2 |
| Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth. John Clare—To the Glowworm. | 3 |
| While many a glowworm in the shade Lights up her love torch. Coleridge—The Nightingale. | 4 |
| Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling. Heine—Book of Songs. Donna Clara. St. 17. | 5 |
| Ye living lamps, by whose dear light The nightingale does sit so late; And studying all the summer night, Her matchless songs does meditate. Marvell—The Mower to the Glow-worm. | 6 |
| Ye country comets, that portend No war nor princes’ funeral Shining unto no other end Than to presage the grass’s fall. Marvell—The Mower to the Glow-worm. | 7 |
| Here’s a health to the glow-worm, Death’s sober lamplighter. Owen Meredith (Lord Lytton)—Au Café. XXXIX. | 8 |
| 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. Montgomery—The Glow-worm. | 9 |
| The glow-worm shows the matin to be near, And ’gins to pale his uneffectual fire. Hamlet. Act I. Sc. 5. L. 89. | 10 |
| 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. Shelley—To a Skylark. | 11 |
| Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge, The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the dark, A moving radiance twinkles. Thomson—The Seasons. Summer. L. 1,682. | 12 |
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