
“And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.”
First Week, First Day.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)
Source: Prothalamion (1596), Line 37
“And swans seem whiter if swart crowes be by.”
First Week, First Day.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)
Source: Euphues (Arber [1580]), P. 93. Compare: "Jupiter himself was turned into a satyr, a shepherd, a bull, a swan, a golden shower, and what not for love", Robert Burton, Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii, sec ii, mem. i, subs. 1.
“There never has been a time when I did not fall in love with one or two in a single day.”
Ni bu amser na charwn…
Yn y dydd ai un ai dwy.
"Merched Llanbadarn" (The Girls of Llanbadarn), line 13; translation from Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson (ed. and trans.) A Celtic Miscellany (Harmondsworth: Penguin, [1951] 1975) p. 209.
Quoted in "Gene Kelly's Musical Memories"
“Mr. Trump didn’t create this economic swan dive to the street. Our politicians did.”
Give Trump the Medal of Freedom (August 7, 2015)
“The clear, sweet singer with the crown of snow
Not whiter than the thoughts that housed below.”
Epistle to George William Curtis (1874)
“Were I a nightingale, I would act the part of a nightingale; were I a swan, the part of a swan.”
Book I, ch. 16.
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