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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BOOK OF DREAMS, by GEORGE MACDONALD    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I lay and dreamed. The master came
Last Line: And all but me asleep!
Subject(s): Birds; Children; Churches; Crucifixion; Death; Desolation; Despair; Dreams; Fathers; Flowers; God; Hope; Lilies; Memory; Prodigal Son; Sleep; Swans; Youth; Childhood; Cathedrals; Jesus Christ - Crucifixion; Dead, The; Nightmares; Optimism


A NIGHT-CHARGE AGAINST A SWAN BY A LOVER, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The swan, wild-clanging, scoured the midnight lake
Last Line: Thy silence will be annie's voice to me.
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


A STRAW SWAN UNDER THE CHRISTMAS TREE, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Its form speaks of gliding
Subject(s): Swans


AFTER BOCCACCIO, by MAX LICHT SONIN    Poem Text                    
First Line: The maiden is a swan
Last Line: A maiden and a swan.
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


AT THE COMING OF THE WILD SWANS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By loch and darkening river
Last Line: Honk! Honk!
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Birds; Migration; Swans


BEAUTY, by MICHAEL DAVID MADONICK    Poem Source                    
First Line: It's time to put a swan on a lake, a few
Last Line: Wings. Bring on the damn swans, anything that's beautiful %deserves its day
Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Swans


BEREAVED SWAN, by FLORENCE MARGARET SMITH    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Wan %swan
Last Line: The swan saith
Alternate Author Name(s): Smith, Stevie
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


BLACK SWAN, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the swans turned my sister into a swan
Last Line: And stroked all night, with a black wing, my wings
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


BLACK SWANS, by ANDREW BARTON PATERSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: As I lie at rest on a patch of clover
Last Line: By a mighty power with a purpose dread.
Alternate Author Name(s): Paterson, 'banjo'
Subject(s): Birds; Death; Fate; Grief; Life; Swans; Dead, The; Destiny; Sorrow; Sadness


BLACK SWANS, by COUNT CARL SNOILSKY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Black swans, like a sad procession
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


BLACK SWANS ON THE MURRAY LAGOONS, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The long lagoons lie white and still
Last Line: Moves as in sleep some bodeful dream.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Australia; Birds; Death; Dreams; Lagoons; Life; Swans; Dead, The; Nightmares


CYGNET; A SONG OF THE THAMES, by RUTH PITTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: He sails alone, rocking on turbid water
Last Line: Until our spirit flowers, and we follow
Subject(s): Birds; Swans; Thames (river)


CYGNUS, by TOM SEXTON    Poem Source                    
First Line: Long past sunset while I split green wood
Last Line: Recall what was once so wonderful and wild
Subject(s): Birds; Nature; Swans


DYING SWAN, by JAMES J. MCAULEY    Poem Source                    
First Line: The piano ripples a delicat
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


DYING SWAN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The white delightful swan
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


EVENING AT GRANDPONT, by WILLIAM JAY SMITH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Who under a stone bridge in the dark
Variant Title(s): Evening At Grandpoint
Subject(s): Swans; Bridges


EVENING SONG: 2, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: And over the pond are sailing
Last Line: They presently must die.
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


EVENING SONG: 3, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When in sorrow, they dare not show it
Last Line: They sing now, while sailing along.
Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Swans; Sorrow; Sadness


FABLES FOR THE LADIES: THE GOOSE AND THE SWANS, by EDWARD MOORE (1712-1757)    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I hate the face, however fair
Last Line: You only her defects reveal.
Subject(s): Beauty; Birds; Fables; Faces; Geese; Nature; Swans; Women; Allegories


FANNY, by EDGAR ALLAN POE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The dying swan by northern lakes
Last Line: By witching eyes which looked disdain.
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


FEBRUARY SWANS, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Of the hundred swans in west bay
Last Line: Has glazed the window with frost.
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Birds; February; Love; Solitude; Swans; Loneliness


FLIGHT OF SWANS, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One who sees giant orion, the torches of winter midnight
Last Line: But life and death not in vain; and the world is like a flight of swans
Subject(s): Swans


GENERATIONS OF SWAN, by PETER DAVISON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Sex, the invisible treasure
Last Line: That ancestrally curved neck, %and the legendary blue eyes?
Subject(s): Birds; Daughters; Swans


HEMATITE LAKE, by JAMES GALVIN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is another kind of sleep
Last Line: Not even nightfall, whose gold we are, can find us
Subject(s): Birds; Lakes; Nature; Swans; Pools; Ponds


ICEBOUND SWANS, by SEAN O'FAOLAIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Pitiful these crying swans tonight
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


KNIGHT OF THE SWAN, by BARBARA GUEST    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: He left the trees when he left the lake
Subject(s): Swans


LEDA, by HILDA DOOLITTLE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the slow river
Last Line: Of the red swan's breast.
Alternate Author Name(s): H. D.; Aldington, Richard, Mrs.
Subject(s): Bible; Birds; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Swans


LEDA AND THE SWAN, by OLIVER ST. JOHN GOGARTY    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Though her mother told her
Last Line: Agamemnon murdered; %and the mighty twins?
Subject(s): Birds; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Swans


LEDA AND THE SWAN, by FELICIA MITCHELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Zeus %he was
Subject(s): Birds; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Swans; Zeus


LEDA AND THE SWAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: A sudden blow [or, the great bird drops]; the great wings beating still
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Variant Title(s): Leda
Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Seduction; Swans; Trojan War; Villains In Literature; Vision; Zeus; Fancy


LEDA AND THE SWAN, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A sudden blow [or, the great bird drops]; the great wings beating still
Last Line: Before the indifferent beak could let her drop?
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Variant Title(s): Led
Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Seduction; Swans; Trojan War; Villains In Literature; Vision; Zeus


LEDA AND THE SWINE (AFTER YEATS), by DAVID SHEVIN    Poem Source                    
First Line: The snort, basso profundo: hooves come a-clopping
Subject(s): Birds; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Poetry And Poets; Swans; Yeats, William Butler (1865-1939)


LEDA RECONSIDERED, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She had a little time to think
Last Line: Almost with tenderness
Subject(s): Birds; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Swans


LEDA RECONSIDERED, by MONA VAN DUYN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: She had a little time to think
Last Line: Her hand moved into the dense plumes %on his breast to touch%the utter stranger
Subject(s): Birds; Leda; Mythology - Classical; Swans


LEDA, AFTER THE SWAN, by CARL PHILLIPS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation by Author     Poet's Biography
First Line: Perhaps, / in the exaggerated grace
Subject(s): Leda; Swans


LONE SWAN, by ROSE MILLS POWERS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Delay your flight, delay your swift pursuit
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


LOVE THE WILD SWAN, by ROBINSON JEFFERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I hate my verses, every line, every word
Last Line: Hear the music, the thunder of the wings. Love the wild swan
Subject(s): Relationships; Swans; Poetry & Poets; Freedom; Hate; Liberty


LYRICAL INTERLUDE: 64, by HEINRICH HEINE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A glittering star is falling
Last Line: The song of the swan died away.
Subject(s): Birds; Singing & Singers; Stars; Swans; Songs


MADRIGAL, by ORLANDO GIBBONS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The silver swan, who living had no note
Last Line: More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise.
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


MO BRON! (A SONG ON THE WIND), by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O come across the grey wild seas
Last Line: To-day and to-morrow.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Birds; Hearts; Pain; Peace; Sea; Singing & Singers; Swans; Suffering; Misery; Ocean


NEAR, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: Two swans drift, arrogant and light
Last Line: Near where the bouncer drowned last night
Subject(s): Birds; Death; Drowning; Nature; Swans


ODES II, 20. TO MAECENAS: THE POET PROPHESIES HIS IMMORTALITY, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: On no common or feeble pinions shall I be borne
Last Line: Omit the superfluous honors of a tomb!
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Birds; Maecenas (70-8 B.c.); Swans; Transfiguration


PASSING TIME, by BRENDAN KENNELLY    Poem Source                    
First Line: He climbs to a high room in the big house
Last Line: Shoots two swans
Subject(s): Birds; Guns; Home; Hunting; Swans


PRELUDE: WHITE SWANS IN PAIRS, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: In pairs white swans came flying
Last Line: Live this day with delight on delight, %long life to you, ten thousand years
Subject(s): Birds; China - Middle Ages (600 B.c.- 618 A.d.); Swans


RIDDLE (2), by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My dress is silent when I tread the ground
Last Line: With earth or water, but a flying spirit
Subject(s): Birds; Riddles; Swans


RIDDLE, FROM THE EXETER BOOK, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Clothes make no sound when I tread ground
Last Line: And feel and know %no fold, no flow
Subject(s): Birds; Riddles; Swans


RUDIGER, by ROBERT SOUTHEY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Bright on the mountain's heathy slope
Last Line: Adown the dark profound.
Subject(s): Birds; Boats; Curses; Love - Loss Of; Marriage; Soldiers; Swans; Weddings; Husbands; Wives


SACRED EPIGRAM: WHERE HE TEACHES LOVE, by RICHARD CRASHAW    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Just as the expiring swan, sweeter in its final word
Last Line: Complete love in pure love, sing
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


SWAN, by RICHARD KELL    Poem Source                    
First Line: Nothing more serene that the fluid neck
Last Line: And terror swirls the surface of the lake
Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Swans; Wings


SWAN, by DAVID HERBERT LAWRENCE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Far-off %at the core of space
Last Line: And stamps his black marsh-feet on their white and marshy flesh
Alternate Author Name(s): Lawrence, D. H.
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


SWAN, by JAY MACPHERSON    Poem Source                    
First Line: White-habited, the mystic swan
Last Line: My garment may no man put by
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


SWAN, by HARRY EDMUND MARTINSON    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Voraciously the swan
Last Line: Coldly as a snake about the bay of dreams
Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Swans


SWAN, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This laboring through what is still undone
Last Line: In his full majesty and ever more %indifferent, he condescends to glide
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


SWAN, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: My robe is silent, when I rest on earth
Last Line: O'er wave and wood, a wandering sprite
Subject(s): Birds; Riddles; Swans


SWAN AND SHADOW, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Dusk / above the / water hang the
Subject(s): Birds; Shadows; Swans


SWAN AND SHADOW, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dusk %above the %water hang the
Last Line: Sudden dark as %if a swan %sang
Subject(s): Birds; Shadows; Swans


SWAN BATHING, by RUTH PITTER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Now to be clean he must abandon himself
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


SWAN BOAT, by ROBERT PALFREY UTTER    Poem Source                    
First Line: What fun to be a baby swan
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


SWAN BY THE MALL, by CORTNEY DAVIS    Poem Source                    
First Line: The swan's white bulk, crumbled like a corrugated box
Last Line: Drawing itself from death's shrunken [or, sunken] belly into the room?
Subject(s): Angels; Birds; Death; Medicine; Nurses; Swans


SWAN SEQUENCE, by UNKNOWN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hear that echo, children
Last Line: With folded wings, they watch by their last king
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


SWAN'S FEET, by EDITH JOY SCOVELL    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is this whose feet
Last Line: That opens and bends closed those leaves
Alternate Author Name(s): Scovell, E. J.
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


SWAN-CHILD, by MARGARET WIDDEMER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My feet have touched the dancing water
Last Line: My lips have kissed the singing rose.
Alternate Author Name(s): Schauffler, Mrs. Robert H.
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


SWANS, by EDITH SITWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the green light of water, like the day
Last Line: With snows as soft, as soundless - then, who knows %rose-footed swan from snow, or girl from rose
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


SWANS, by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Night is over the park
Last Line: We watch the swans and never a word is said.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


SWANS FROM THE NORTH, by HANS HARTVIG SEEDORFF PEDERSEN    Poem Source                    
First Line: Twas five wild swans in silver plumage dressed
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


SWANS IN THE NIGHT, by JOAN MELLINGS    Poem Source                    
First Line: Three swans
Last Line: From the dark lagoon
Subject(s): Animals; Birds; Swans


THE ALL OF IT, by MOLLY PEACOCK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Picnics; Swans; Barbecues


THE BLACK SWAN, by RANDALL JARRELL    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: When the swans turned my sister into a swan
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


THE DYING SWAN, by THOMAS STURGE MOORE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O silver-throated swan
Last Line: The god of love, let him learn how!
Alternate Author Name(s): Moore, T. Sturge
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


THE DYING SWAN, by ALFRED TENNYSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The plain was grassy, wild and bare
Last Line: Were flooded over with eddying song.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tennyson, Lord Alfred; Tennyson, 1st Baron; Tennyson Of Aldworth And Farringford, Baron
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


THE GRATEFUL SWAN, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: One day, a poor peddler
Last Line: "nor I!"" said his wife."
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


THE GRAY SWAN, by ALICE CARY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh tell me, sailor, tell me true
Last Line: My dead, my living child!
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


THE HAPPY SWAN, by FLORENCE CONVERSE    Poem Text                    
First Line: In the cathedral close at wells
Last Line: Every time you rang a bell!
Subject(s): Birds; Swans; Wellesley College


THE MUSIC OF THE SWAN, by WILLIAM WORDSWORTH    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I heard (alas! 'twas only in a dream)
Last Line: She soared -- and I awoke, struggling in vain to follow.
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


THE POSTED SWAN, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A noble swan was borne through field and lane
Last Line: Such dole as royal mails can pause to give.
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


THE ROMANCE OF THE SWAN'S NEST, by ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Little ellie sits alone
Last Line: That swan's nest among the reeds!
Subject(s): Birds; Children; Swans; Childhood


THE SONG OF AEIFA, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Speed hence, speed hence, o lone white swans
Last Line: At the ringing of christ's bell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Bells; Birds; Death; Jesus Christ; Mythology - Celtic; Swans; Dead, The


THE SORROW OF THE HOUSE OF LIR, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Happy our father lir afar
Last Line: Homeless we are from shore to shore.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Birds; Brothers; Homeless; Magic; Mythology - Celtic; Pain; Swans; Half-brothers; Suffering; Misery


THE SWAN, by EDMUND WILLIAM GOSSE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The awakening swan grows tired at last
Last Line: The awakened soul must sail or die.
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


THE SWAN, by MARY OLIVER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Did you too see it, drifting, all night, on the black river?
Subject(s): Swans; Beauty


THE SWAN, by YAKOV POLONSKY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The quaver'd plea of the fiddle; gardens glowing
Last Line: An ink-black sky; and quavering went the fiddle.
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


THE SWAN AND THE PEACOCK, by CHARLES TENNYSON TURNER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Proud of his hundred eyes of glossy grain
Last Line: On cydnus rigg'd to meet mark antony.
Subject(s): Birds; Peacocks; Swans


THE SWAN AND THE SKYLARK, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Midst the long reeds that o'er a grecian stream
Last Line: "and the glad skylark's -- triumph and despair!"
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Birds; Larks; Swans; Skylarks


THE SWAN'S FEET, by EDITH JOY SCOVELL                        Poet's Biography
First Line: Who is this whose feet
Alternate Author Name(s): Scovell, E. J.
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


THE SWAN-AVIARY, by THOMAS WADE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A thousand swans are o'er the waters sailing
Last Line: To the white pomp of that vast aviary!
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


THE SWAN; TO VICTOR HUGO, by CHARLES BAUDELAIRE    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Andromache, I think of you! - this small river
Last Line: Of captives, of the conquered! . . . Of many others more!
Subject(s): Birds; Mythology - Classical; Swans


THE SWANS, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The swans float and float
Last Line: And the swans which float.
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


THE SWANS, by EDITH SITWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In the green light of water, like the day
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


THE SWANS AT WELLS, by LETITIA STOCKETT    Poem Text                    
First Line: With sidelong eye and regal throat
Last Line: Here beauty dwells with jeopardy.
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


THE SWANS' LAMENT FOR THE DESOLATION OF LIR, by JOHN TODHUNTER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: A lost dream to us now is our home
Last Line: A lost dream to us now is our home!
Subject(s): Birds; Grief; Swans; Sorrow; Sadness


THE TWO SWANS; A FAIRY TALE, by THOMAS HOOD    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Immortal imogen, crowned queen above
Last Line: And little birds were singing sweetly from each spray.
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


THE WATCH OF A SWAN, by SARAH MORGAN BRYAN PIATT    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I read somewhere that a swan, snow-white
Last Line: Had the love of a bird for a child.
Alternate Author Name(s): Piatt, Sarah
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


THE WHOLE STORY, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Where the beach hooks, white
Last Line: Dark to ee him
Subject(s): Swans


THE WILD SWANS AT COOLE, by WILLIAM BUTLER YEATS    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: The trees are in their autumn beauty
Last Line: To find they have flown away?
Alternate Author Name(s): Yeats, W. B.
Subject(s): Aging; Birds; Coole, Ireland; Imagination; Swans; Vision; Fancy


TO A WILD SWAN, by HENRY MEADE BLAND    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Wither away, o magical seaman
Subject(s): Swans


TRANSFIGURED SWAN, by LOUIS UNTERMEYER    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A start
Alternate Author Name(s): Lewis, Michael
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


TRUMPETER SWANS, by JOHN RYBICKI    Poem Source                    
First Line: The trumpeter swans puncture down through blue
Last Line: White nuts and bolts floating in god's engine
Subject(s): Birds; Feathers; Swans


UGLY SWAN, by GREG HEWETT    Poem Source                    
First Line: As you know, my feathers whitened
Last Line: So what's the difference?
Subject(s): Birds; Goddesses And Gods; Mythology; Swans; Zeus


VISIONS: 3, by WILLIAM BROWNE (1591-1643)    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a silver swan swim down the lea
Last Line: Where, overgone with grief, poor bird, she died.
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, William Of Tavistock
Subject(s): Swans; Lee (river), England


VOYAGE A L'INFINI, by WALTER CONRAD ARENSBERG    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The swan existing / is like a song with an accompaniment
Last Line: Without imagination.
Subject(s): Birds; Imagination; Swans; Fancy


WILD SWANS, by EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: I looked in my heart while the wild swans went over
Last Line: The town again, trailing your legs and crying!
Alternate Author Name(s): Boyd, Nancy; Boissevain, Eugen, Mrs.
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


YOU WERE ONCE A SWAN, by LALLA    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: You were once a swan singing
Last Line: Himself has disappeared
Alternate Author Name(s): Lal Ded; Lalla-vakyana; Lalleswari; Lalla Yogiswari
Subject(s): Birds; Swans


YOU, FAILED PRONOUN, by ELEANOR WILNER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Direct address to the swans: you, whose feet
Last Line: On a dark ground. Eft. Splash. Gone.
Alternate Author Name(s): Wilner, Eleanor Rand
Subject(s): Birds; Spring; Swans; Wilderness; Wings