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Till glowworms light owl-watchmen's flight Through our green metropolis. - William Allingham, Greenwood Tree My star, God's glowworm. - Robert Browning, Popularity Tasteful illumination of the night, Bright scattered, twinkling star of spangled earth. - John Clare, To the Glowworm While many a glowworm in the shade Lights up her love torch. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge, The Nightingale Glow-worms on the ground are moving, As if in the torch-dance circling. - Heinrich Heine, Book of Songs--Donna Clara (st. 17) Here's a health to the glow-worm, Death's sober lamplighter. - Lord Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton ("Owen Meredith"), Au Cafe (XXXIX) Ye country comets, that portend No war not princes' funeral Shining unto no other end Than to presage the grass's fall. - Andrew Marvell, the Younger, The Mower to the Glow-worm Ye living lamps, by whose dear light The nightingale does sit so late; And studying all the summer night, Her matchless songs does meditate. - Andrew Marvell, the Younger, The Mower to the Glow-worm 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. - James Montgomery, The Glow-worm The glowworm shows the matin to be near And gins to pale his uneffectual fire. - William Shakespeare, Hamlet Prince of Denmark (Ghost at I, v) Like a glowworm golden, in a dell of dew, Scattering unbeholden its aerial blue Among the flowers and grass which screen it from the view. - Percy Bysshe Shelley, To a Skylark Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge, The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the dark, A moving radiance twinkles. - James Thomson (1), Seasons--Summer (l. 1,682)
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