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Potential Titles: Swan

Swans and nightingales rehearse - Benjamin West Ball "Elfin Land"

A lake which fell in love with a swan - Ilya Bekhtiya "I Searched for You" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

And the proud swans stray - Robert Bridges "Elegy"

Incarnation of a curling swan - Cyrus Cassells "How Many Lives Have We Lived in Paris?"

A swan and the moon - Leila Chatti "I Went Out to Hear"

Girdled with melody of murmuring swans - Nirupamā Debī "The Dancer" transl. by Miss Whitehouse

Boys who wager swans - Diana Marie Delgado "In the Romantic Longhand of the Night"

The wild Swan's melodious melancholy - Edward Dowden "To a Year"

These moonmad swans and ecstatic ganders - Lawrence Ferlinghetti "A Coney Island of the Mind, 11"

A cloak of swans - Jennifer Elise Foerster "Sixteen Shadows 4"

Two swans stayed faithful and fierce - Kate Knapp Johnson "Parker's Mountain"

As swans in autumn in assembling bands - Kalidasa "The Birth of the War-God: Canto First: Uma's Nativity" transl. by Ralph T.H. Griffith

And every goose a swan - Charles Kingsley "Young and Old"

The swan of samite blood - Philip Lamantia "The Islands of Africa"

Like an onward-hurried swan - Eugene Lee-Hamilton "An Ode of the Tuscan Shore"

Fling these bitter drops to the wild swans - Li Qingzhao "The Wild Swans" transl. from Chinese to French by Judith Gautier and from French to English by James Whitall

Swans that prophesy night and day - Vachel Lindsay "The Golden Whales of California"

The goose of To-day still is Memory's swan - James Russell Lowell "In the Half-Way House"

The swan's black vanguard told it - Dorothea Mackellar "Swallows"

The black swan guarding the pond - Randall Mann "?"

Watched the swans drop from the dark air - Anis Mojgani "Leda"

Shepherd of the cold swan - Pablo Neruda "Cataclysm" transl. by Maria Jacketti

Swans who wear and break a chain - E. Nesbit "[The swans along the water glide]"

Grow from geese to swans - "Nonsense"

A bewilderment of black swans pulling - Carl Phillips "Heroic Interval"

Five swans chanting overhead - Adrienne Rich "Letters to a Young Poet"

The celestial swan that once dreamed itself a person - Kaya Skovdatter "What Beautiful Heavens These"

Two old swans landing downstream - Richard Solomon "The River Through Your Eyes (For Linda)"

A swan and shadow floating down - R.H. Stoddard "Ode [The days are growing chill]"

Crows have usurped the role of swans - Surdas "Sur's Ocean 181: Lordly Encounters-- and Others" transl. by John Stratton Hawley

Strong as a wild swan's pinions - Algernon Charles Swinburne "A Dark Month"

Soars lightly like a startled swan - Ts'ao Chih "Rhyme-Prose on the Goddess of Lo" transl. by Burton Watson

Flights of origami swans - R.A. Villanueva "This dark is the same dark as when you close"

Between freedom and unfreedom swans swim - Zheng Min "Naked Exposure #9: The Wings of Swans" translator not credited. Source: https://projects.zo.uni-heidelberg.de/archive2/DACHS_Leiden/poetry/MD/Zheng_Min_trans.pdf


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