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| Searching... Subject: FIREFLIES Matches Found: 54 A DREAM, FR. SONGS OF INNOCENCE, by WILLIAM BLAKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Once a dream did weave a shade Last Line: "little wanderer, hie thee home!" Subject(s): Bible; Fireflies; Mythology; Glowworms A LOVER, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: If I could catch the green lantern of the firefly I could see to write you a letter Subject(s): Letters; Fireflies; Glowworms A MINOR POET, by AMELIA JOSEPHINE BURR Poem Text First Line: The firefly, flickering about Last Line: To make a summer evening gay. Subject(s): Fireflies; Glowworms BIOLUMINESCENCE: 1. CANDELA, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: The eggs burn softly / in the earth, and when glow-worms Subject(s): Fireflies; Hunger; Light; Glowworms BIOLUMINESCENCE: 2. LAMBERT, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Sometimes at night, fire- / flies are startled by lightning Subject(s): Fireflies; Rain; Sleep; Glowworms BIOLUMINESCENCE: 3. LUMEN, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How vulnerable / we would all be if longing Subject(s): Desire; Fireflies; Longing; Glowworms BIOLUMINESCENCE: 4. LUCIFERIN, by LEE ANN RORIPAUGH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: You are a dusky / angel drawn to the gleaming Subject(s): Fireflies; Light; Smoking; Glowworms; Tobacco; Pipes; Cigars; Cigarettes CHANT TO THE FIRE-FLY, by ANONYMOUS Poem Text First Line: "fire-fly, fire-fly, light me to bed" Last Line: "you are my candle, and light me to go" Subject(s): Fireflies; Glowworms CHILDREN'S SONG, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Oi! Oi! Firefly, here! Last Line: Oi! Oi! Firefly, here! Subject(s): Fireflies DANCING ADAIRS, by CONRAD AIKEN Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Behold me, in my chiffon, gauze, and tinsel, Last Line: Now I sink into you, for love of sleep Subject(s): Fireflies; Love; Glowworms DRAGONFLY, by THEODORE HARDING RAND Poem Source First Line: Winged wonder of motion Subject(s): Dragonflies; Fireflies ELEGIAC SONNET: 58. THE GLOW-WORM, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: When on some balmy-breathing night of spring Last Line: -- so turn the world's bright joys to cold and blank disgust. Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Fireflies; Glowworms FIREFLIES, by AILEEN FISHER Poem Source First Line: In the soft dark night Last Line: Without bumping their heads %or losing their way Subject(s): Fireflies FIREFLIES, by JOSE GOROSTIZA Poem Source First Line: A thin mist %has flowered the tips of peach tree branches Last Line: With paper lanterns on our shoulders Subject(s): Absence; Fireflies; Flowers; Spring FIREFLIES, by CAROLYN HALL Poem Source First Line: Little lamps of the dusk Last Line: To be a shooting star Subject(s): Fireflies FIREFLIES, by ROLF JACOBSEN Poem Source First Line: It was that evening with the fireflies Last Line: With flashes of light around your head. %it was then Subject(s): Fireflies; Happiness; Kisses; Love; Old Age FIREFLIES, by WILLIAM HAROLD MCCREARY Poem Text First Line: What flaming constellation gave you birth Last Line: The mystery of stars ... And fireflies? Subject(s): Fireflies; Glowworms FIREFLIES, by NAOMI SHIHAB NYE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Lately I had looked for you everywhere Last Line: To little light. Subject(s): Fireflies; Nature; Night; Glowworms; Bedtime FIREFLIES, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Tonight I watch the fireflies rise Last Line: But a new web could never weave. Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F. Subject(s): Fireflies; Glowworms FIREFLIES, by GEORGE ROBINSON Poem Text First Line: Above the meadow's silvery haze Last Line: Among the denser shades are lost. Subject(s): Fireflies; Glowworms FIREFLIES, by WILLIAM SHARP Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Softly sailing emerald lights Last Line: And raised them thus to the outer air. Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona Subject(s): Fireflies; Glowworms FIREFLIES, by MAY SWENSON Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Fireflies throw %love winks Last Line: Hints %can scintillate Subject(s): Fireflies FIREFLIES IN THE CORN, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Look at the little darlings in the corn Last Line: My poor, my perished soul with the sight of you Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H. Subject(s): Fireflies FIREFLY, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: I see you flashing in the night and try to catch you Last Line: Might you not become as boring as the others? Subject(s): Fireflies FIREFLY, by OGDEN NASH Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The firefly's flame Last Line: Than flying around with an unidentified glow on a person's posteerier Subject(s): Fireflies FIREFLY CITY, by HENRY VAN DYKE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Like a long arrow through the dark the train is darting Last Line: The fire-fly city of the dark is lost in empty air! Alternate Author Name(s): Civis Americanus Subject(s): Fireflies; Insects; Glowworms; Bugs FIREFLY LIGHTS HIS LAMP, by UNKNOWN Poem Source First Line: Although the night is damp Last Line: And slowly lights his lamp Subject(s): Fireflies FIREFLY'S ONE WORD, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: Darkness! Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fireflies; Nature FIREFLY; A SONG, by ELIZABETH MADOX ROBERTS Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A little light is going by Last Line: And made to go on wings. Subject(s): Fireflies; Imagination; Glowworms; Fancy GECKO AND FIREFLY, by JOSIE KEARNS Poem Source First Line: Somewhere a hit man is feeding his pet gecko Last Line: Capture wielding their flashlights across the field Subject(s): Fireflies; Imagination GLOW-WORM, by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Oh, what is this which shines so bright Subject(s): Fireflies; Landscape GLOW-WORM, by EDWARD SHANKS Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: The pale road winds faintly upward into the dark skies Subject(s): Fireflies GOGOL, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Jacket worn and shabby like a pack of wolves Subject(s): Fireflies; Glowworms GOGOL, by TOMAS TRANSTROMER Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Jacket worn and shabby like a pack of wolves Last Line: So mount your chariot of fire and leave the country Subject(s): Fireflies HAIKU 1, by MINH LIEN NGUYEN Poem Source First Line: Over the meadow Last Line: Fireflies flicker in circle %oh, such ghostly light Subject(s): Fireflies IN THE SUMMER, BY THE RIVER, by KENNETH REXROTH Poem Text Poet's Biography Subject(s): Fireflies; Glowworms LA LUCIOLE, by JAMES LAUGHLIN Poem Source Poet's Biography First Line: Je te vois voltigeante dans la Last Line: Tu rasant comme les autres? Subject(s): Fireflies LAST FIREFLY, by ELIZABETH ZELVIN Poem Source First Line: As the moon rises it circles Last Line: Singing with yellow light its clear small song Subject(s): Fireflies; Psychoanalysis; Relationships LAZY LITTLE FIREFLY, by ANNETTE WYNNE Poem Text First Line: Lazy little firefly, keep your lamp aglow Last Line: Lazy tricksy firefly, you are most unkind Subject(s): Fireflies MAKING NO SOUND, by MINAMOTO NO SHIGEYUKI Poem Source Last Line: The firefly is still sadder %than the moaning insect Subject(s): Fireflies MEDITATION, by AMY LOWELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A wise man Subject(s): Fireflies; Stars; Glowworms SEE HOW THE GLOW-WORM'S LIGHT, by WILLIAM HENRY DAVIES Poem Text First Line: See how the glow-worm's light is found Last Line: The knowledge that is in a kiss. Alternate Author Name(s): Davies, W. H. Subject(s): Fidelity; Fireflies; Faithfulness; Constancy; Glowworms STRAINING ON THE TOILET, by JAMES HARRISON Poem Source Poet's Biography Last Line: The lightning bug feels Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim Subject(s): Fireflies; Lavatories; Nature THE FIREFLIES, by HUMPHRY DAVY Poem Text First Line: Again that lovely lamp from half its orb Last Line: Repaying by its beauty for the pang. Subject(s): Fireflies; Glowworms THE FIREFLY, by GEORGE HERBERT CLARKE Poem Text First Line: While on my bed I lay, watching the night Last Line: Compelling, and his radiant name is love. Subject(s): Fireflies; Insomnia; Love; Memory; Glowworms; Sleeplessness THE FIREFLY, by JOHN BANISTER TABB Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Are you flying through the night Last Line: "for the folks behind me." Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb Subject(s): Fireflies; Glowworms THE FIREFLY, by SARAH CHAUNCEY WOOLSEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Mid summer green in twilight's damp Last Line: "and tame it if you can,—good-by!" Alternate Author Name(s): Coolidge, Susan Subject(s): Fireflies; Glowworms THE GLOW-WORM, by VINCENT BOURNE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Beneath the hedge, or near the stream Last Line: And boasts its splendour too. Subject(s): Fireflies; Glowworms THE GLOW-WORM, by THOMAS STANLEY Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Stay, fairest chariessa, stay and mark Last Line: As to thy greater light a sacrifice. Subject(s): Fireflies; Glowworms THE MOWER TO THE GLOW-WORMS, by ANDREW MARVELL Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Ye living lamps, by whose dear light Last Line: That I shall never find my home. Variant Title(s): The Lover To The Glow-worms Subject(s): Fireflies; Love; Glowworms THE NIGHT-PIECE: TO JULIA, by ROBERT HERRICK Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: Her eyes [or, lamp] the glow-worm lend thee Last Line: My soule I'le pour into thee! Variant Title(s): On A Dark Road;serenade Subject(s): Courtship; Love - Erotic; Fireflies; Love; Night; Glowworms; Bedtime THE NIGHTINGALE AND THE GLOW-WORM, by WILLIAM COWPER Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: A nightingale, that all day long Last Line: Of him that creeps and him that flies. Subject(s): Birds; Fireflies; Nightingales; Glowworms TO THE FIRE-FLY, by THOMAS MOORE Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: This morning, when the earth and sky Last Line: To light, if not to warm, the gloom! Alternate Author Name(s): Little, Thomas Subject(s): Fireflies; Glowworms TO THE FIRE-FLY OF JAMAICA, SEEN IN A COLLECTION, by CHARLOTTE SMITH Poem Text Poet's Biography First Line: How art thou alter'd! Since afar Last Line: Is friendship's long regret, and true affection's tear! Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Charlotte Turner Subject(s): Fireflies; Jamaica, West Indies; Slavery; Glowworms; Serfs |
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