HMS Black Swan

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or swan:

“All your ages
Matt and glossy on the thick black pages!”
—Philip Larkin (1922–1985)

“The snow, which doth the top of Pindus strew,
Did never whiter shew,
Nor Jove himself, when he a swan would be
For love of Leda, whiter did appear:”
—Edmund Spenser (1552?–1599)