Worms

Is there any room at your head, Sanders? Is there any room at your feet? Or any room at your twa sides, Where fain, fain I would sleep? There is nae room at my head, Margaret, There is nae room at my feet; My bed it is the cold, cold grave; Among the hungry worms I sleep.

—Ballads

He lies below, correct in cypress wood, And entertains the most exclusive worms.

—Parker, Dorothy ne¤  e Rothschild

In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit. Not a nasty, dirty, wet hole, filled with the ends of worms and an oozy smell, nor yet a dry, bare, sandy hole with nothing inittositdownonor to eat: it was a hobbit-hole,and that means comfort.

—Tolkien,J(ohn) R(onald) R(euel)

   The body of Benjamin Franklin, printer, (Like the cover of an old book, Its contents worn out, And stripped of its lettering and gilding) Lies here, food for worms! Yet the work itself shall not be lost, For it will, as he believed, appear once more In a new And more beautiful edition, Corrected and amended By its Author!

—Franklin, Benjamin

Wenn ich gewusst h a« tte, dass so viel Teufel auf mich gezielet h a« tten, als Ziegel auf den D a« chern waren zu Worms, w a« re ich dennoch eingeritten. I would have gone into Worms though there were as many devils as tiles on the roof.

—Luther, Martin

Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! The things, we know are neither rich nor rare, But wonder how the Devil they got there.

—Pope, Alexander

The poet makes silk dresses out of worms.

—Stevens,Wallace

The more the worms writhe, the more I yearn to crush out their entrails!

—Bronte«  , EmilyJane

Cada esta c° a‹  o da vida e¤   uma edi c° a‹  o, que corrige a anterior, e que sera¤   corrigida tambe¤  m, ate¤   a edi c° a‹  o definitiva, que o editor da¤   de gra c° a aos vermes. Each stage in life is an edition that supersedes the previous one and will also be superseded until the definitive edition: the one that the editor gives to the worms.

—Machado de Assis,Joaquim Maria

If men cease to believe that they will one day become gods then they will surely become worms.

—Miller, Henry Valentine

For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth: And though after my skin worms destroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I see God.

—Bible (Old Testament)

Then worms shall try That long preserved virginity: And your quaint honour turn to dust; And into ashes all my lust. The grave's a fine and private place, But none I thinkdo there embrace.

—Marvell, Andrew