Swans Quotes

“All our geese are swans.”

“I will play the swan
And die in music.”

“The immortal swan that did her life deplore.”

“The jelous swan, agens hire deth that syngith.”

“The swan on still St. Mary's lake
Float double, swan and shadow!”

“Swan”

“swan”

“The swan, like the soul of the poet,
By the dull world is ill understood.”

“There's a double beauty whenever a swan
Swims on a lake with her double thereon.”

“The swan murmurs sweet strains with a faltering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge.”

“(Let music sound while he doth make his choice)
Then if he lose he makes a swan-like end.”

“The swan's down-feather,
That stands upon the swell at full of tide,
And neither way inclines.”

“The swan, with arched neck
Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows
Her state with oary feet.”

“Thus does the white swan, as he lies on the wet grass, when the
Fates summon him, sing at the fords of Mæander.”

“As I have seen a swan
With bootless labour swim against the tide
And spend her strength with over-matching waves.”

“For all the water in the ocean,
Can never turn the swan's black legs to white,
Although she lave them hourly in the flood.”

“The swan in the pool is singing,
And up and down doth he steer,
And, singing gently ever,
Dips under the water clear.”

“Some full-breasted swan
That, fluting a wild carol ere her death,
Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood
With swarthy webs.”

“Place me on Sunium's marbled steep,
Where nothing save the waves and I
May hear our mutual murmurs sweep;
There, swan-like, let me sing and die.”

“The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul
Of that waste place with joy
Hidden in sorrow: at first to the ear
The warble was low, and full and clear.”