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Every earthworm's bristle & every seraph's six wings - Airea D. Matthews "Nevertheless: An Ecstatic Ode"


Bored by the worms of night - Thomas Aird "The Old Soldier" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine no.CCCCXXXVI, v.LXXI, Feb. 1852]

Canker'd by the worm of pride - James Beattie "The Minstrel; or, the Progress of Genius, book I"

The worm, the canker, and the grief - Lord Byron "On this Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year"

Connoisseurs of the worm's catacomb of waste - Michael Collier "Crows in a Fresh Mown Field Before Rain"

Among the blind brown worms - Adelaide Crapsey "Warning to the Mighty"

The small hard teeth of worms - Countee Cullen "The Shroud of Color"

true only to the noise of worms - E. E. Cummings "Amores (XI)"

Know that the worm had conquered all - Edwin R. Johnson "Who Knows?" [The Continental Monthly v.6 no.3, Sept. 1864]

Flowers to bring worms and wasps - Ashley M. Jones "Photosynthesis"

The foul worm that he frets - Herbert Knowles "Lines Written in Richmond Churchyard, Yorkshire"

Not proof against a worm - Marianne Moore "Roses Only"

The undying worm of sense - Lewis Morris "The Epic of Hades book I: Tartarus: Tantalus"

Some humbler herb or worm - Lewis Morris "The New Creed"

May revel with the worm - Robert Morris "The Student's Dream of Fame"

Crawling worm and robber bee - Sarah Noble-Ives "The Dragon-fly"

Seven dancer floating even as worms - Mary Oliver "Seven White Butterflies"

Old worm of wrapped-up gossamer - Walter S. Percy "The Chrysalis"

Where worms possess all that was most honoured - Sir Thomas Phillipps "The Departing Soul's Address to the Body: A Fragment of a Semi-Saxon Poem" (transl. by Samuel Weller Singer)

Shared his cells with worms and ferns - Melissa Range "All Creation Wept"

Fixed the suppers for the worms and the elves - Anne Sexton "Her Kind"

And make worms thine heir - William Shakespeare "Sonnet VI"

Worms dapple pears in the orchard - Margo Taft Stever "For Sale"
Most are looking for the worm in the bud - Rudolph Valentino "Reflections at Random (To A.T.)"

Nearly ripe for worms - Jean Toomer "Face"


But coral worms combined heave up a reef - Delta "A November Morning's Reverie" [Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, no.CCCLXXXV, v.LXII, Nov. 1847]

Silkworm.

Togas of worm-eaten mud - Pablo Neruda "Revolutions" transl. by Alastair Reid

Wormhole.

Ornate with worm-trail tracery - Amy E. King "Digging Potatoes, Sebago, Maine"


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