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The flight of a glancing swallow - Amber aka Martha Everts Holden "The Veterans"

A swallow coiled with gold leaves - Taneum Bambrick "Lovers' Mural"

Smooth with its swoop of swallows - Terry Blackhawk "Maumee, Maumee"

Skies that tempt the swallow back - C.S. Calverley "Waiting"

Glanced with envy at the swallows - C.S. Calverley "Wanderers"

The swallows wove and rewove their crooked flight - Giosue Carducci "On a Saint Peter's Eve" transl. by Frank Sewall

With rain-cloud and swallow - Willa Cather "Fides, Spes"

Swallows check their winding flight - John Clare "Summer Evening"

As swallows swerve in the fallow air - Geffrey Davis "The Epistemology of Rosemary"

While the sweet swallow bends her wings - Walter de la Mare "Sorcery"

The swallow's eggs are laid along the belfry walls - Lord de Tabley "The Churchyard on the Sands"

Swallows carve lake wind - Carolyn Forche "Skin Canoes"

My heart skipped quicker than a swallow's - Vievee Francis "Sugar and Brine: Ella's Understanding"

Has journeyed farther than the swallow - "The Good Goddess of Poverty [A Prose Ballad, translated from the French]" [The Continental Monthly v.4 no.3, Sept. 1863]

The swallow is dipping his wings in the tide - H. "June" (The Knickerbocker v.10:1, July 1837)

Like home-coming swallows that seek the old eaves - Arthur Sherburne Hardy "In an Album"

A swarm of swallows to sacrifice - Yong-Yu Huang "City Lights as Myth"

Within the space of a swallow's nest-door - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

The paths of skimming swallows - Archibald Lampman "September"

Sent the very swallows into hiding - C.S. Lewis writing as Clive Hamilton "Dymer. Canto I"

The swallows without number - Dorothea Mackellar "Swallows"

Returning the swallow to the sky - Shara McCallum "History Is a Room"

Wayward as the swallow - George Meredith "Love in the Valley"

Swallows who are late for school - Pablo Neruda "The Book of Questions: VII" transl. by William O'Daly

A dream full of swallows' wings - Sarah Noble-Ives "Barn-Door Inn"

The speed to catch swallows - Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson "Our New Horse"

A swallow came but you did not - Muhemmetjan Rashidin "Longing" transl. by Munawwar Abdulla

Gone with the swallows - Ameen Rihani "Gone with the Swallows"

We asked our way of the swallow - Rennell Rodd "Those Days Are Long Departed"

Comes like a swallow veering home - Duncan Campbell Scott "Memory"

The barn swallows' sharp flight and cry - Diane Seuss "Six Unrhymed Sonnets"

atmospheric heat to storm and swallow - Jake Skeets "Sonoran Desert Poem"

Thick as swallows after storms - Edmund Clarence Stedman "The Freshet: A Connecticut Idyl"

The swallows of dreams through its dim fields dart - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Ballad of Dreamland"

Shows the swallow the wind's way - Algernon Swinburne "The Way of the Wind"

The swallows who nest in the beams - Tu Fu "The River Village" transl. by Florence Wheelock Ayscough and Amy Lowell

As the swallow flies to the Summer - Katherine Tynan "Wild Geese"

Comes like the swallow and flies as soon - Humbert Wolfe "Columbine"

Pass through time like swallows - Yang Lian "Venice Elegy 2 Rot Poem" transl. by Brian Holton


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