Swan Lake Photography

Shakespeare have written more about birds than any other poet in western literature like the glorious swan, 
quote via shakespeare-online.com

Swan at Lake Wendouree, Victoria Australia Spring 2011

  

For all the water in the ocean
Can never turn the swan's black legs to white,
Although she lave them hourly in the flood.
(Titus Andronicus 4.2.103-5)

With this, we charged again: but, out, alas!
We bodged again; as I have seen a swan
With bootless labour swim against the tide
And spend her strength with over-matching waves.
(3 King Henry 6 1.4.19-22)

And wheresoever we went, like Juno's swans,
Still we went coupled and inseparable
(As You Like It 1.3.73-4)

What did thy song bode, lady?
Hark, canst thou hear me? I will play the swan.
And die in music.
(Othello 5.2.284-5)

Go thither; and, with unattainted eye,
Compare her face with some that I shall show,
And I will make thee think thy swan a crow.
(Romeo and Juliet 1.2.88-90)