The cock doth craw, the day doth daw, The channerin' worm doth chide.

-Ballads
'The Wife of Usher's Well'.

But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised of the people. All they that see me laugh me to scorn: they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,HetrustedontheL that hewoulddeliverhim: let him deliver him, seeing he delighted in him.

-Bible (Old Testament)
ORDPsalms 22:6^8.

O rose, thou art sick! The invisible worm That flies in the night, In the howling storm, Has found out thy bed Of crimson joy, And his dark secret love Does thy life destroy.

-Blake,William
  Songs of Experience,'The Sick Rose'.

Unfading moths, immortal flies, And the worm that never dies. And in that heaven of all their wish, There shall be no more land, say fish.

-Brooke, Rupert Chawner
  'Heaven'.

Are not your kisses then as filthy, and more, As a worm sucking an envenomed sore? Doth not thy fearful hand in felling quake, As one which gathering flowers, still fears a snake? Is not your last act harsh, and violent, As when a plough a stony ground doth rent?

-Donne,John
c.1595  Elegies, no.8,'The Comparison'.

Stirring suddenly from long hibernation, I knew myself once more a poet Guarded by timeless principalities Against the worm of death.

-Graves, Robert von Ranke
  'Mid- Winter Waking'.

Hongry rooster don't cackle w'en he fine a wum.

-Harris,Joel Chandler
  Uncle Remus: His Songs and His Sayings,'Plantation Proverbs'.

Fly fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I canonlycomparetoa stick and a string, with a worm at one end and a fool at the other.

-Johnson, Samuel known as Dr Johnson
Quoted in Hawker Instructions toYoung Sportsmen (1859). The attribution is doubtful, and Swift has also been credited with the remark.

Electronic calculators can solve problems which the man who made them cannot solve; but no government subsidized commission of engineers and physicists could create a worm.

-Krutch,JosephWood
  The Twelve Seasons,'February'.

Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.

-Milton,John
  Paradise Lost (published1667), bk.4, l.698^705.

O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies,O worse than chains, Dungeon, or beggary, or decrepit age! Light the prime work of God to me is extinct, And all her various objects of delight Annull'd, which might in part my grief have eas'd, Inferior to the vilest now become Of man or worm; the vilest here excel me, They creep, yet see, I dark in light expos'd To daily fraud, contempt, abuse and wrong, 586 Within doors, or without, still as a fool, In power of others, never in my own; Scarce half I seem to live, dead more than half.

-Milton,John
Samson  Agonistes, l.67^79.

Le Bonheur e¤  tait ma fatalite¤  , mon remords, mon ver: ma vie serait toujours trop immense pour e"  tre de¤  voue¤  e a'   la force et a'   la beaute¤  . Happiness was my fate, my remorse, my worm: my life would always be too large to be dedicated to force and to beauty.

-Rimbaud, (Jean Nicolas) Arthur
  Une saison en enfer, De¤  lires, no.2,'Alchimie du verbe'.

   O sweet, on a wretch wilt thou be revenged? Shall such high planets tend to the loss of a worm?

-Shute, Nevil originally Nevil Shute Norway
The Old Arcadia,'Fourth Eclogues'.