... on her lap to play Delighted, with the glow-worm's harmless ray Toss'd light from hand to hand; while on the ground Small circles of green radiance gleam around.

Salute with boding note the rising moon, Frosting with hoary light the pearly ground, And pouring deeper blue to Aether's bound; Rejoic'd her solemn pomp of clouds to fold In robes of azure, fleecy white, and gold, While rose and poppy, as the glow-worm fades, Checquer with paler red the thicket shades.

It looked so like a gem, shining through its dark grove, so like a great glow-worm in the dense foliage, so significant of luxury and gayety, that the poor master, from an overflowing heart, groaned again.

A bar clattered down, the door swung back, and there, raising a glow-worm lantern of oiled paper, stood such a timorous little figure as might have ventured out from a masquerade of gnomes.

The dew lay thick upon the unstirr'd leaves; The glow-worm glisten'd brightly as he pass'd; The thrush still chaunted, but the swallows fast Hied to their home beneath lone cottage eaves.

The female will never develop her wings, but remain to her life's end a crawling grub, like the female of our own Vapourer moth, and that of our English Glow-worm.

Of the Glow-worm! CHANTECLER

And you, Glow-worm? A LITTLE VOICE

of lucir, brilliant, magnificent. luciérnaga, f., glow-worm, firefly.

I think it is more than probable, that the heat of the sun causes the marine glow-worm to lay its eggs; at all events it is certain, that terrestrial insects of this species shine only in the heat of summer, and that their peculiar resplendency is produced during the period of their copulation.

Lady Bird! fly away home The glow-worm is lighting her lamp, The dew's tailing fast, and your fine speckled wings Will flag with the close-clinging damp.

Their astonishment was increased, when their father told them that this luminous appearance was produced by a countless number of insects, whose bodies gave forth the same kind of lustre as that of the glow-worm, and Mr. James assured them that he had seen the whole surface of the ocean, as far as the eye could reach, glittering with this beautiful light.

The Spaniard calls her his 'Glow-worm'" "Truly a honeymoon name," Bedient observed.

And I've met the Glow-worm" Her whole manner changed for an instant.

As to his exterior fortunes, there was substance in the matters pertaining to the Glow-worm, which Miss Mallory brought, but they hardly held him past the moments of their telling.

The Glow-worm was lying upon a tiger-rug; very tall and silken she looked, and her great yellow eyes settled upon me.

"Can you understand that the Glow-worm is expiring to get back to that old mad life?"

The Glow-worm laughed in a lost, mirthless way, and held me tightly as she finished, 'But that very night, just the same, you would find yourself with him!

"I am beginning to share some of the Glow-worm's fear of Señor Rey.

The Glow-worm was trembling, and squeezed my hand repeatedly to insure silence, and slid the ladder along nearly to the end.

The woman at the wheel, straining downward, saw the Glow-worm rise with an appalling shudder, as the eyes of her lord left her; saw her body huddle forward toward him, her hands fumbling in her hair.

You must excuse a man who has so recently discovered his Glow-worm to be a scorpion" The crouching figure of the womanin the rage she had prayed for, and as she had prayed for it, with his eyes turned awayhurled forward as one diving into the sea.

The roads would not permit vehicle of any sort, and though saddling was an ordeal for the Glow-worm and Madame Sorenson, the distance was not great, and from every eminence there were flashes of morning glory upon the endless company of hills.

There was not a star to be seen and only the glow-worm lent an occasional lilliputian effulgence to the great, dark world.

Thereafter, as the shades Of twilight deepened, going forth, I spied A glow-worm underneath a dusky plume Or canopy of yet unwithered fern, Clear-shining, like a hermit's taper seen 35 Through a thick forest.