Creep into thy narrow bed, Creep, and let no more be said! Vain thy onset! all stands fast. Thou thyself must break at last. Let the long contention cease! Geese are swans, and swans are geese. Let them have it how they will! Thou art tired; best be still.

-Arnold, Matthew
  New Poems,'The Last  Word'.

I'll love you dear, I'll love you Till China and Africa meet And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street, I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven starsgo squawking Like geese about the sky.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'As I  Walked Out One Evening'.

Friends part foreveröwild geese lost in cloud

-Basho, Matsuo
c.1689  On Love and Barley: Haiku of Basho, no.219 (translated by Lucien Stryk).

It is not that the French are not profound, but they all express themselves so well that we are led to take their geese for swans.

-Brooks,VanWyck
  From  A Writer's Notebook.

The silver swan, who living had no note, When death approached, unlocked her silent throat; Leaning her breast against the reedy shore, Thus sung her first and last, and sung no more: 'Farewell, all joys; Oh death, come close mine eyes; More geese than swans now live, more fools than wise.'

-Gibbons, Orlando
  TheFirst Set of Madrigals and Motets of Five Parts,'The Silver Swan'.

It was the best place to be, thought Wilbur, this warm delicious cellar, with the garrulous geese, the changing seasons, the heat of the sun, the passage of swallows, the nearness of rats, the sameness of sheep, the love of spiders, the smell of manure, and the glory of everything.

-White, E(lwyn) B(rooks)
  Charlotte'sWeb, ch.22.

Autumn wind rises; white clouds fly. Grass and trees wither; geese go south.

-Wu-ti
c.127  BC  'TheAutumnWind' (translated byArthurWaley).The poem is a lament on leaving his mistress behind while he travelled on official business.