Read full poem →The Mæander is a river in Asia Minor. Ovid ('Heroides', VII, 1-2)
represents the swan as singing his death-song on its banks.
Dictionary Entry
Any of various species of large, long-necked waterfowl, of genus Cygnus (bird family: Anatidae), most of which have white plumage.
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Common Phrases
. swanlake swanriver swansong swansonnenschein swanswan blackswan whiteswan wild
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Poetry examples for “swan”
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Read full poem →Thus on Maeander's flowery margin lies
The expiring swan, and as he sings he dies.
Read full poem →sun have dispelled and consumed,
Those full deep swan-soft feathers of snow with whose luminous
burden the branches implumed
Read full poem →They perish, but thou shalt endure;
Be their flight with the swan or the swallow,
They pass as the flight of a year.
Read full poem →But, the dear image fled, the mirror broke.
Who now shall tell us more of moucnftJ swan,]
Ofhalcyotii kind, or bleeding pelicans:?
Read full poem →As brandished at the eyes of ignorance.
Sweet Swan of Avon! what a sight it were
To see thee in our water yet appear,
Read full poem →glorified) brother, (patrons to the flowing compositions of the tiien expired
sweet swan of Avon Shakspeare'; and since, more particularly bound to
your lordship's most constant and diffusive goodness, from which we did
Read full poem →Nor yet unrival'd the Maeonian strain.
The British ea^le ♦ and the Mantuan swan^
Tow'r equal heights. But happier Stratford, thoa^
Read full poem →Wherein my lady rideth!
Each that draws is a swan or a dove,
And well the car Love guideth.
To The Memory Of My Beloved, The Author, Mr William Shakespeare, And What He Hath Left UsbyBen Jonson
Read full poem →As brandished at the eyes of ignorance.
Sweet swan of Avon! what a sight it were
To see thee in our waters yet appear,