Her eyes the glowwormlend thee, The shooting stars attend thee; And the elves also, Whose little eyes glow Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.
The glowworm shows the matin to be near And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire.
On many previous night-journeys I had been on the lookout for some such surprise as this, as yet only rewarded by the tiny sparkle of the glowworm in the grass.
The familiar examples of the glowworm and fire-fly hardly need be mentioned.
While walking through a wood at night I chanced upon what I supposed to be a largeglowworm in my path.
And, as they sing, the young man makes a motion with his hand, there is a sort of glowworm flash, and a few seconds later, away down there among the Paris roofs a puff of red smoke and fire.
Who creeps with hisglowworm crew Above the mire With a corpse-light fire, As only dead men do?
Back to the cities, the firefly cities, the glowworm cities where we can hide, The beautiful cities of Faeryland.
The glowwormlight lasts for many seconds and then dies out.
So shall I love thee, Down in the dark,--lest Glowworm I prove thee, Star that now sparklest!
I ran down quickly, and found my dear little glowwormshining merrily on the stone pavement of the greenhouse.
You see I had not let the glowworm roam about in the back garden to look for his own food, because I thought I could feed him much better.
Nurse now called me to bed, so after we had put some leaves close to the glowworm we left it shining brightly.
The next morning I ran to see if my glowworm was pretty or ugly by daylight, but it was gone!
So I got an old tumbler with a chip in it and put some leaves in it, and then tumbled my glowworm in, head-foremost, and covered up the top with a piece of paper.
George laughed at me, and said he thought the glowworm would have to grow a good deal larger before it could do that.
And now, shall I tell you the story of a glowworm while you put this one carefully on a lettuce leaf which I have placed in a pot?
I do not think a glowworm is a pretty insect when it has no light.
But I would not believe it when George told me so; when I lost my little glowworm I had to believe it, but it was too late, and my fairy lamp had gone out.
But the rotten wood and the herring's head declared most solemnly, by all they held sacred, that the glowworm only gave light at certain times and must not be allowed to compete with them.
IT is only the female Glowworm which produces the beautiful light for which the insect is so well known, and she frequently communicates this light to her eggs.
The hills grow dark, On purple peaks a deeper shade descending; In twilight copse the glowworm lights her spark, The deer, half seen, are to the covert wending.
As they gazed, the glowworm disappeared in Gerard's late prison, but its light illuminated the cell inside and reddened the window.
The light at the nape of his neck made a glowworm of him.
They never used the same glowworm twice, I observed; but let him go, apparently uninjured by the use they had made of him.
But now, illuminated only by a far off torchlight and by a glowworm coiled around the band, it was black.
A wild glowworm had swooped over them and disturbed the smooth reflection built up by the Skins.
The light from the glowworm on the guard's hat lit up feebly his face, which was orthagnathous and had quite humanoid eyes and lips.
Its seats bristled with tall peaked hats with outspread glowworm wings and with drawn epees.
While she walked on her way, the moon, unseen herself behind the clouds, was illuminating the whole landscape so gently and evenly, that the glowworm being the only visible point of radiance, to it she attributed all the light.
But while such a small portion of the universe of thought was enlightened by the glowworm lamp of the theories she had been taught, she was not limited for light to that feeble source.
Each bulb was carefully blinded from the ocean by a sheath, which confined its glowworm radiance exclusively to the promenade.
It formed a queer spectacle, a glowworm creeping up on a bonfire.
The bodies of the glowworm and firefly always are transparent when filled with flame.
Cold flame is exemplified in the firefly, and the glowworm gives forth heatless light.
