Which preposition to use with swans
This sweet Swan of Thames has so artfully diversified his strains and his rhymes that the same thought never occurs twice,more justly, perhaps, as no thought ever occurs at all, there was a physical impossibility that the same thought should recur, It is long since I saw and read these inscriptions; but I remember the impression was of a smug usher at his desk in the intervals of instruction, levelling his pen.
On Tuesday last one of the swans in Central Park laid a hen's egg.
And in the open windows shot Nine swans on whistling wing, And high above the heads they flew,
We learned to draw flying birds and bounding deer and floating swans with scrolls in their beaks, all without lifting pen from paper.
And at night we will come through the clouds down the wild course of Rosset Ghyll and sup and sleep in the hotel hard by Dungeon Ghyll, or, perchance, having the day well in hand, we will push on by Blea Tarn and Yewdale to Coniston, or by Easedale Tarn to Grasmere, and so to the Swan at the foot of Dunmail Raise.
"I swan to man!"
There is no table d'hôte at the Swan for supper, but this meal is served up à la carte, which is very convenient for those who do not require copious meals.
R. T. in his Blazon of Jealousy, telleth a story of a swan about Windsor, that finding a strange cock with his mate, did swim
* THE SWANS OF YPRES.
And the swan after which Damayanti ran, having led her to a secluded spot, addressed her in human speech, saying, O Damayanti, there is a king amongst the Nishadhas named Nala.
ON THE SIGHT OF SWANS IN KENSINGTON GARDEN Queen-bird that sittest on thy shining nest, And thy young cygnets without sorrow hatchest,
The young and inexperienced were farthest out, the old and wise nearer the middle of the group, and right in the centre sat Daylight, the swan-king, and Snow-White, the swan-queen, who were older than any of the others and regarded the rest of the swans as their children.
The frontispiece, a steel engraving, showed a group of girls feeding some swans by the terraced margin of an ornamental water, and it bore the legend, "Feeding the Swans."
A sweeter swan than ever sung in Po, A shriller nightingale than ever bless'd The prouder groves of self-admiring Rome.
His sighs are the notes of his music, and his song is like the swan before her death.
A dawning twilight through the cave In moony gleams doth go, Half from the swan above the wave, Half from the swan below.
Caparisoned with pearls, ten milk-white steeds Are harnessed to her chariot that leads; On snow-white swans beside her ride her maids, They come!
Whenever Narcissus turned his gleaming spokes along some mapped, but none the less mysterious, countyroad, he thought of Lohengrin in his barge drawn by white swans to his mystic tryst; he thought of the seven-leagued boots, the flying carpet, the wishing-cap, and the wooden Pegasus,so called because it mounted into the clouds on the turning of a peg.
So shoots through the morning sky the lark, Or the swan through the summer sea.
He fell upon us like a hawklike snow on the head; he seized our darling swan from the flock of her dear ones, from father, from mother, from kinsfolk, and from friends.
Some of our party thought they saw both an emu and a black swan amongst the bushes on the banks of the river.
The opposite hills were covered with a soft blue haze, and white villages sat along the shore, "like swans among the reeds."