Swarthy Quotes
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Some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs.
Alfred Tennyson— Passing of Arthur.
The flaming rose gloomed swarthy red; The borage gleams more blue; And low white flowers, with starry head, Glimmer the rich dusk through.
George MacDonald— George MacDonald, Songs of the Summer Night, Part in.
Despise me not, For if I was swarthy once. Thou canst regard me now:;; Since Thou hast regarded me, Grace and beauty hast Thou given me.
— Fr. John of the Cross, in The Complete Works of Saint John of the Goss of the Ordor of Our Lady of ..., quoted by Joan de la Creu p.175
Like some full-breasted swan That, fluting a wild carol ere her death, Ruffles her pure cold plume, and takes the flood With swarthy webs.
Tennyson— 1869 Idylls of the King,'The Passing of Arthur', l.434-7.
