Les souffles flottant dans les bois en fleurs
A love poem by Marcel Proust
Aeneid Book 6, lines 295 - 330
Catullus 16
Metamorphoses Book 8, Lines 200 - 235
Inferno Canto 1 lines 61 - 85
by Rilke
Diese Mühsal, durch noch Ungetanes
Rilke sees a metaphor for life and death in the swan on land and on water.
Odes 1.21