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| Searching... Subject: SWANS Matches Found: 103 A BOOK OF DREAMS, by GEORGE MACDONALD Poem Text 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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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'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 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 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 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'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'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'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 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'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'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'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'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'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 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'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'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's Biography Subject(s): Picnics; Swans; Barbecues THE BLACK SWAN, by RANDALL JARRELL Poem Text 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'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'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'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'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'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 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'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 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'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'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 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'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'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 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'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'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'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'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 |
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