Swing Low

Famous quotes containing the words swing low and/or swing:

    “Swing low swing low sweet sweet chariot.
    Nothing but a plain black boy.”
    —Gwendolyn Brooks (b. 1917)

    “Whose starward eye
    Saw chariot “swing low”? And who was he
    That breathed that comforting, melodic sigh,
    “Nobody knows de trouble I see”?”
    —James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938)

    “The bells, I say, the bells break down their tower;
    And swing I know not where.”
    —Hart Crane (1899–1932)

    “The swing of milk was tufted in the pap....”
    —Dylan Thomas (1914–1953)