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According to one poem, the image of this animal "can bring wildness, bring a rage / to end all things," "even / The half-imagined, the half-written page" after "Some moralist or mythological poet" compares it to a "solitary soul." An author who evoked the hour when this animal "must fix his eye / Upon a fading gleam" described a "daughter" of this animal who "stands before me as a living child" in a poem that recalls a myth about them in a dream of a woman's body "bent / Above a sinking (*) fire." A poem beginning, "I meditate upon a swallow's flight" is titled for a place where another speaker counts these "brilliant creatures," whose "hearts have not grown old." A poem named for one of these animals describes a "shudder" that "engenders there / The broken wall, the burning roof and tower" and asks if a "staggering girl" with "terrified, vague fingers" "put on his knowledge with his power." For 10 points, name these animals that swim at Coole and rape Leda in poems by W.B. Yeats.
According to one poem, the image of this animal "can bring wildness, bring a rage / to end all things," "even / The half-imagined, the half-written page" after "Some moralist or mythological poet" compares it to a "solitary soul."
wans [accept Cygnus; prompt on "Anatidae" or "birds" or "Aves" or other less specific answers]