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Swans Quotes
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The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge. (Quote by - Marcus Valerius Martial)
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. (Quote by - Lord Alfred Tennyson)
There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon. (Quote by - Thomas Hood)
The swan on still St. Mary's lake Float double, swan and shadow! (Quote by - William Wordsworth)
Sweets to the sweet. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive approaching death they sing more merrily than before, because of the joy they have in going to the God they serve. (Quote by - Socrates)
Every sweet hath its sour, every evil its good. (Quote by - Ralph Waldo Emerson)
When turkeys mate they think of swans. (Quote by - Johnny Carson)
The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, Dips under the water clear. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
Let music sound while he doth make his choice; Then if he lose he makes a swanlike end, Fading in music. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood. (Quote by - Heinrich Heine)
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. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
The immortal swan that did her life deplore. (Quote by - Giles Fletcher)
Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can Her heart inform her tongue--the swan's down-feather That stands upon the swell at full of tide, And neither way inclines. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)