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Tennyson's poem was an inspiration for the ballet ''[[The Dying Swan]]'', created for [[Anna Pavlova]] in 1905 and danced to the music of ''[[Le cygne]]'' by the French composer [[Camille Saint-Saëns]].<ref>Matthew Naughtin, ''Ballet Music: A Handbook'', [https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=1YcNBAAAQBAJ&lpg=PA210&ots=11GLgVzmW-&dq=%22the%20dying%20swan%22%20%20ballet%20inspired%20by%20Tennyson&pg=PA210#v=onepage&q=%22the%20dying%20swan%22%20%20ballet%20inspired%20by%20Tennyson&f=false p.210]</ref>
Thomas Sturge Moore (1870-1944) also wrote a poem called "The Dying Swan", starting "O silver-throated Swan / Struck, struck! A golden dart / Clean through thy breast has gone / Home to thy heart". The poet then urges the swan to sing as defiance against "him who smote", and ends by urging the swan to "even teach / O wondrous-gifted Pain, teach Thou / The God of love, let him learn how". Sturge Moore's poem is later quoted in Elizabeth Goudge's existential Christian novel, ''The Rosemary Tree'' (1956) as two men discuss their close
The band [[Led Zeppelin]]'s record label for the second half of their career was [[Swan Song Records]]. Their first five releases were on Atlantic records, the next five were on Swan Song Records.
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