Swans - Maxioms.comQuotes, Famous Quotes, Sayings, Proverbs, Maxims, Axioms, Maxiomshttp://maxioms.comen-usCopyright 2026 Maxioms.com. All Rights Reserved.<![CDATA[Coal-black is better than another hue In that it scorns to bear another hue; For all the water in ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58462<![CDATA[You think that upon the score of fore-knowledge and divining I am infinitely inferior to the swans. When they perceive ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58463<![CDATA[The wild swan's death-hymn took the soul Of that waste place with joy Hidden in sorrow: at first to ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58464<![CDATA[Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58465<![CDATA[The stately-sailing swan Gives out his snowy plumage to the gale; And, arching proud his neck, with oary feet ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58466<![CDATA[The swan on still St. Mary's lake Float double, swan and shadow! ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58467<![CDATA[The swan murmurs sweet strains with a flattering tongue, itself the singer of its own dirge. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58454<![CDATA[The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58455<![CDATA[Thus does the white swan, as he lies on the wet grass, when the Fates summon him, sing at the ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58456<![CDATA[Her tongue will not obey her heart, nor can Her heart inform her tongue--the swan's down-feather That stands upon ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58457<![CDATA[We bodged again, as I have been a swan With bootless labor swim against the tide And spend her ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58458<![CDATA[I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death, And ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58459<![CDATA[Let music sound while he doth make his choice; Then if he lose he makes a swanlike end, Fading ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58460<![CDATA[I will play the swan, And die in music. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58461<![CDATA[Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings, Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings: Live so, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58447<![CDATA[The immortal swan that did her life deplore. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58448<![CDATA[The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58449<![CDATA[The swan in the pool is singing, And up and down doth he steer, And, singing gently ever, ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58450<![CDATA[And over the pond are sailing Two swans all white as snow; Sweet voices mysteriously wailing Pierce ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58451<![CDATA[The swan, like the soul of the poet, By the dull world is ill understood. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58452<![CDATA[There's a double beauty whenever a swan Swims on a lake with her double thereon. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58453<![CDATA[All our geese are swans. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58443<![CDATA[Place me on Sunium's marbled steep, Where nothing save the waves and I May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58444<![CDATA[The jelous swan, agens hire deth that syngith. ]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58445<![CDATA[The swan is not without cause dedicated to Apollo, because foreseeing his happiness in death, he dies with singing and ...]]>http://maxioms.com/maxiom/58446