SWAN

Related Subject: Birds

1. All our geese are swans.—ROBERT BURTON, Anatomy of Melancholy
   

2. The immortal swan, that did her life deplore.—GILES FLETCHER, Temptation and Victory of Christ
   

3. The swan in the pool is singing,
   And up and down doth he steer,
   And, singing gently ever,
   Dips under the water clear.—HEINE, Book of Songs
   

4. The swan, like the soul of the poet,
   By the dull world is ill understood.—HEINE, Early Poems
   

5. There's a double beauty whenever a swan
   Swims on a lake with her double thereon.—THOMAS HOOD, Her Honeymoon
   

6. The swan, with arched neck
   Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows
   Her state with oary feet.—MILTON, Paradise Lost
   

7. The swan's down-feather,
   That stands upon the swell at full of tide,
   And neither way inclines.—SHAKESPEARE, Antony and Cleopatra
   

8. I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan,
   Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death;
   And, from the organ-pipe of frailty, sings
   His soul and body to their lasting rest.—SHAKESPEARE, King John
   

9. (Let music sound while he doth make his choice)
   Then if he lose he makes a swan-like end.—SHAKESPEARE, The Merchant of Venice