William Shakespeare on Swans
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“I will play the swan And die in music.”
- William Shakespeare, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
“(Let music sound while he doth make his choice) Then if he lose he makes a swan-like end.”
- William Shakespeare, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
“The swan's down-feather, That stands upon the swell at full of tide, And neither way inclines.”
- William Shakespeare, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
“As I have seen a swan With bootless labour swim against the tide And spend her strength with over-matching waves.”
- William Shakespeare, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
“For all the water in the ocean, Can never turn the swan's black legs to white, Although she lave them hourly in the flood.”
- William Shakespeare, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations
“I am the cygnet to this pale faint swan, Who chants a doleful hymn to his own death; And, from the organ-pipe of frailty, sings His soul and body to their lasting rest.”
- William Shakespeare, Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations