SWALLOW

Related Subject: Birds

1. One swallow does not make spring.—ARISTOTLE, Ethics
   

2. One swallow never makes a summer.—CERVANTES, Don Quixote
   

3. The swallow is come!
   The swallow is come!
   O, fair are the seasons, and light
   Are the days that she brings,
   With her dusky wings,
   And her bosom snowy white!—LONGFELLOW, Hyperion

4. It's surely summer, for there's a swallow:
   Come one swallow, his mate will follow,
   The bird race quicken and wheel and thicken.—CHRISTINA ROSSETTI, A Bird Song
   

5. The swallow sweeps
   The slimy pool, to build his hanging house.—JAMES THOMSON, The Seasons