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It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as these lowly organized creatures.

—Charles Darwin

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The earthworm is the great tiller of the soil.

—John Steinbeck

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Earth-worms, though in appearance a small and despicable link in the chain of nature, yet, if lost, would make a lamentable chasm.

—Gilbert White

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The earth herself produces worms,
and by them is renewed.

—Pliny the Elder

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Nobody likes me,
everybody hates me,
guess I'll go eat worms.

—Children's folksong

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Poem: Song of the Worms

Poem: The Worm Has Hope

Poem: The Late Worm

Poem: Worms

Poem: Worms

Poem: The Conqueror Worm

Poem: Cythaera and the Worm

Poem: A Knot of Worms

Poem: The Mower to the Glowworms

Poem: Elegy with Apples, Pomegranates, Bees, Butterflies, Thorn Bushes, Oak, Pine, Warblers, Crows, Ants, and Worms

Poem: Under Sea

Poem: Kermes Red

Poem: The Luzumiyat of Abu’l-Ala, XLVIII

Poem: Lines on a Skull

Poem: Declaration

Poem: The Worm

The Worm

Worm

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