HMS Black Swan

Famous quotes containing the words black and/or swan:

    The body is no body to be seen
    But is an eye that studies its black lid.
    Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)

    But all is changed, that high horse riderless,
    Though mounted in that saddle Homer rode
    Where the swan drifts upon a darkening flood.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)