Yet taught by time, my heart has learn'd to glow

For others' good, and melt at others' woe.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Odyssey of Homer. Book xviii. Line 269.

Her eyes the glow-worm lend thee,

The shooting-stars attend thee;

And the elves also,

Whose little eyes glow

Like the sparks of fire, befriend thee.

Robert Herrick (1591-1674): The Night Piece to Julia.

The glow-worm shows the matin to be near,

And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5.

Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,

But look'd too near have neither heat nor light.

John Webster (1578-1632): The White Devil. Act iv. Sc. 4.