Swan posing

There's a double beauty whenever a swan swims on a lake with her double thereon.
-Thomas Hood

Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
-Hans Christian Andersen

The swan, with arched neck between her white wings mantling proudly, rows her state with oary feet.
-John Milton

But calm, white calm, was born into a swan.
-Elizabeth Coatsworth

The swan on still St. Mary’s lake float double, swan and shadow!
-William Wordsworth

When all the world is young, lad,
And all the trees are green;
And every goose a swan, lad
And every lass a queen;
Then hey for boot and horse, lad,
And round the world away:
Young blood must have its course, lad,
And every dog his day.
-Charles Kingsley

Death darkens his eyes, and unplumes his wings,
Yet the sweetest song is the last he sings:
Live so, my Love, that when death shall come,
Swan-like and sweet it may waft thee home.
Marcus Tillius Cicero