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UPDATE command denied to user 'poetryex_users'@'localhost' for table `poetryex_poems`.`subcnt` A BAROQUE WALL-FOUNTAIN IN THE VILLA SCIARRA, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the bronze crown / too big for the head of the stone cherub whose feet
Subject(s): Art & Artists; Fountains; Rome, Italy


A PARAPHRASE ON THE 13TH ODE OF THE 3RD BOOK OF HORACE, by THOMAS WARTON THE ELDER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: While sol with thee, dear fountain, plays
Last Line: While you reign each a naïad of the stream.
Subject(s): Fountains; Nature; Praise; Water; Youth


A PICTURE, by JAMES GATES PERCIVAL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a fountain of the purest wave
Last Line: Boats, like a sleeping naiad, on the wave.
Subject(s): Fountains


A STATUE OF LOVE, by ZENODOTUS    Poem Text                    
First Line: Who sculptured love beside this fountain? - fool!
Last Line: To think with water such a flame to cool!
Subject(s): Fountains; Love


AT THE FOUNTAIN, by MARCABRU    Poem Text                    
First Line: A fount there is, doth overfling
Last Line: "but heaven is very far away."
Alternate Author Name(s): Marcabrun
Subject(s): Fountains


AT THE STEVENSON FOUNTAIN (PORTSMOUTH SQUARE, SAN FRANCISCO), by WALLACE IRWIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Perhaps from out the thousands passing by
Last Line: And draw contentment from a cup of tears!
Alternate Author Name(s): Ginger; Hashimura Togo
Subject(s): Fountains; Grief; San Francisco; Sorrow; Sadness


BAROQUE WALL-FOUNTAIN IN THE VILLA SCIARRA, by RICHARD WILBUR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Under the bronze crown %too big for the head of the stone cherub whose feet
Last Line: Toward which all hungers leap, all pleasures pass
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Fountains; Rome, Italy


BEFORE THE FOUNTAINS FLOW, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Source                    
Last Line: First must wake the heart of everything
Subject(s): Fountains


BEING SICK OF A FEVER, COMPLAINS OF THE FOUNTAIN CASIS, by GIOVANNI [GIOVANO] PONTANO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Casis, to craving fields thou lib'ral flood
Last Line: Orpheus appeas'd her with his harp before.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pontanus, Jovianus
Subject(s): Fountains; Sickness; Illness


DRAW, AND DRINKE, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Milk still your fountains, and your springs, for why?
Last Line: The more th'are drawn, the lesse they wil grow dry.
Subject(s): Environment; Fountains; Environmental Protection; Ecology; Conservation


DRINKING FOUNTAIN, by ROBERT DUNCAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Garcia lorca tasted
Last Line: This is the drinking fountain
Subject(s): Death; Fountains; Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936)


FIDELITY, by JACK GILBERT    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: He's absurd about the fountain
Subject(s): Fountains; Desire


FLECKS OF FOAM, by JAMES HARRISON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Last Line: The scripture of water
Alternate Author Name(s): Harrison, Jim
Subject(s): Fountains; Nature; Water


FOR THE PLAN OF A FOUNTAIN, by MATTHEW PRIOR    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Ye active streams, where'er your waters flow
Last Line: Anna quid imperiis potuit, quid marlburus armis.
Subject(s): Danube (river); Fountains; Thames (river); Water


FOUNTAIN, by DONALD DAVIE    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Feathers up fast, and steeples; then in clods
Last Line: We ask of fountains only that they play, %though that was not what berkeley meant at all
Subject(s): Berkeley, George (1685-1753); Fountains


FOUNTAIN, by VYACHESLAV IVANOVICH IVANOV    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: Clear the fountain waters glowing
Last Line: "for the stintless bucket fills."
Subject(s): Fountains; Springs (water)


FOUNTAIN, by HENRY LONGAN STUART    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The fountain falls from laughing mouth of stone
Subject(s): Fountains


FOUNTAIN (3), by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fountain, fountain, why do you say
Last Line: Nothing escapes, nothing is free
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Fountains


FOUNTAIN IN AVIGNON, by LAURE-ANNE BOSSELAAR    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Here, lovely retching moss-capped cherub: this penny's for you
Last Line: Throw them back, throw them out.
Subject(s): Angels; Avignon, France; Disdain; Faith; Fountains; Gratitude; Prayer; Wishes; Scorn; Belief; Creed


FOUNTAIN, THE FOUNTAIN, THE VANDALS, by MICHAEL ALAN PARKER    Poem Source                    
Last Line: All the dead scattered in-between %(they sink and float and soar and
Subject(s): Fountains; Poetry And Poets; Vandalism


FOUNTAIN-HEADS, by JOHN BANISTER TABB    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Alike from depths of joy and sorrow start
Last Line: Alike must flow again.
Alternate Author Name(s): Father Tabb
Subject(s): Fountains; Life


FOUNTAINS, by JAMES ELROY FLECKER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Soft is the collied night, and cool
Last Line: Wave and float the nenuphars.
Subject(s): Fountains


FOUNTAINS, by SACHEVERELL SITWELL    Poem Source         Poet Analysis            
First Line: This night is pure and clear as thrice
Subject(s): Fountains


FOUNTAINS OF AIX, by MAY SWENSON    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Beards of water
Subject(s): Fountains; Aix, France


IN FOUNTAIN COURT, by ARTHUR WILLIAM SYMONS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: The fountain murmuring of sleep
Last Line: Soon, love, come soon.
Subject(s): Fountains; June


INSCRIPTION FOR A FOUNTAIN, by BRYAN WALLER PROCTER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Rest! This little fountain runs
Last Line: And thank the great god pan for all!
Alternate Author Name(s): Cornwall, Barry; Proctor, Bryan Waller
Variant Title(s): For A Fountain
Subject(s): Fountains


INSCRIPTION FOR A FOUNTAIN ON A HEATH, by SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: This sycamore, oft musical with bees
Last Line: Or passing gale or hum of murmuring bees!
Subject(s): Fountains; Rivers


INSCRIPTION FOR A WELL IN MEMORY OF THE MARTYRS OF THE WAR, by RALPH WALDO EMERSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fall, stream, from heaven to bless; return as well
Last Line: So did our sons; heaven met them as they fell.
Subject(s): American Civil War; Fountains; Martyrs; United States - History


INSCRIPTION ON A FOUNTAIN, by EDWARD LOVIBOND    Poem Text                    
First Line: O you, who mark what flowrets gay
Last Line: O flow for all creation too! E. Lovibond
Subject(s): Fountains


INSCRIPTION ON A FOUNTAIN, FOR DOROTHEA L. DIX, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Stranger and traveller
Last Line: Drink, and in his peace go!
Subject(s): Fountains; God


JERUSALEM THE GOLDEN: 43, by CHARLES REZNIKOFF    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the middle of the pool
Subject(s): Fountains


JET ASCENDS AND, FALLING, GOES, by CONRAD FERDINAND MEYER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
Last Line: And flows and rests
Alternate Author Name(s): Meyer, Konrad
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Fountains; Rome, Italy


MEDICI FOUNTAIN, by JAY MEEK    Poem Source                    
First Line: In the luxembourg gardens, I unfold a map of paris over my knee
Last Line: That is overwhelming
Subject(s): Fountains; Parks


MEMORIAL FOUNTAIN, by ROY FISHER    Poem Source                    
First Line: The fountain plays
Last Line: Romantic notion
Subject(s): Fountains


MY FOUNTAIN, by LUIS GONZAGA ORTIZ    Poem Source                    
First Line: Hard by the cottage, innocent and free
Last Line: My humble, sweet and murmurous fount, of thee!
Subject(s): Fountains; Sea; Water


ODES III, 13. TO THE FOUNTAIN OF BANDUSIA, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Bandusia, stainless mirror of the sky!
Last Line: All babblingly thou fallest.
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Fountains


OLNEY HYMNS: 15. PRAISE FOR THE FOUNTAIN OPENED, by WILLIAM COWPER    Poem Text     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: There is a fountain filled with blood
Last Line: No other name but thine.
Subject(s): Fountains; God


ON A FOUNTAIN AND ITS ARCHITECT, by PHILIP AYRES    Poem Text     Poem Explanation                 Poet's Biography
First Line: A wat'ry heap by a fresh torrent fed
Last Line: When in the sky there's neither cloud nor shower.
Subject(s): Architecture & Architects; Fountains


ON THE STATUE OF CLEOPATRA, MADE INTO A FOUNTAIN BY LEO X, by BALDASSARRE CASTIGLIONE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Whoe'er thou art whom this fair statue
Last Line: Whose shining scene with rich hesperia vies.
Subject(s): Cleopatra, Queen Of Egypt (69-30 B.c.); Fountains; Statues


PIAZZA, by F. JOHN HERBERT    Poem Source                    
First Line: The piazza backs on a palace in the center
Last Line: Follow the cold war to the telephone. %phone the acrobats
Subject(s): Fountains; Statues


POEM FOR THE DEDICATION OF THE FOUNTAIN AT STRATFORD-ON-AVON, by OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Welcome, thrice welcome is thy silvery gleam
Last Line: And love make one the old home and the new!
Subject(s): Fountains


PRAISES THE FOUNTAIN CASIS, by GIOVANNI [GIOVANO] PONTANO    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Casis, where nymphs, and where the gods resort
Last Line: Charm'd with thy murm'ring noise, she falls asleep.
Alternate Author Name(s): Pontanus, Jovianus
Subject(s): Fountains


RECLUSE, by JAMES MONTGOMERY    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: A fountain issuing into light
Last Line: But the sweet streamlet watering flowers.
Alternate Author Name(s): The Common Lot
Subject(s): Fountains


REMEMBERING THE FOUNTAIN, by JOHN HOLLANDER    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Dry apollo: his bright butterflies silent
Last Line: Heights that wait southward, and above no sea
Subject(s): Fountains


ROMAN FOUNTAIN, by LOUISE BOGAN    Poem Source     Poem Explanation     Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the bronze, I saw
Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs.
Subject(s): Fountains; Poetry & Poets


ROMAN FOUNTAIN, by LOUISE BOGAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Up from the bronze, I saw
Last Line: Strike on the fountain bowl %after the air of summer
Alternate Author Name(s): Holden, Raymond, Mrs.
Subject(s): Fountains; Poetry And Poets


ROMAN FOUNTAIN BORGHESE, by RAINER MARIA RILKE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Two basins, one rising from the other
Last Line: Gently smile from underneath with nuances
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Fountains; Rome, Italy


ROMAN SONNETS: 6, by VYACHESLAV IVANOVICH IVANOV    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Over their backs they let the turtles slip
Last Line: Echo, lorenzo, of your melancholy
Subject(s): Art And Artists; Fountains; Rome, Italy


SILVERY FOUNTAIN, by MARY TUCKER LAMBERT    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Silvery fountain! Soft and clear
Last Line: My soul above.
Alternate Author Name(s): Tucker, Mary Eliza Perine
Subject(s): Fountains


SPRING AT THE VILLA CONTI, by ROBERT UNDERWOOD JOHNSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Of time and nature still the fairest daughter
Last Line: "this is not heaven, but italy."
Subject(s): Fountains; Italy; Italians


THE BIRD AND THE FOUNTAIN, by CHARLOTTE YOUNG    Poem Text                    
First Line: There was once a little fountain
Last Line: And hers enduring light!
Subject(s): Birds; Fountains


THE BROKEN FOUNTAIN, by AMY LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Oblong, its jutted ends rounding into circles,
Subject(s): Fountains


THE DIAMOND DOG FOLLOWS ME TO THE COURT OF PONCE DE LEON, by DIANE WAKOSKI    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: They announce me as a princess,
Subject(s): Fountains; Gifts & Giving; Infinity


THE DRINKING FOUNTAIN, by ROBERT DUNCAN    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Garcia lorca tasted
Last Line: This is the drinking-fountain
Subject(s): Death; Fountains; Garcia Lorca, Federico (1898-1936); Dead, The


THE FAIR WATERS OF DREAM, by MARIE DE REGNIER    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: By the fair waters of asia, in a green countryside
Last Line: The stroke gone by.
Alternate Author Name(s): D'houville, Gerard; Heredia, Marie De
Subject(s): Dreams; Fountains; Shadows; Water; Waves; Nightmares


THE FAIRY OF THE FOUNTAINS, by LETITIA ELIZABETH LANDON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Why did she love her mother's so?
Last Line: The fountain fairy -- melusine!
Alternate Author Name(s): L. E. L.; Maclean, Letitia
Subject(s): Fountains; Legends, English


THE FOUNTAIN, by MUHAMMAD AL-MU'TAMID II    Poem Text                    
First Line: The sea hath tempered it; the mighty sun
Last Line: Hath steel somewhat advantage over water.
Alternate Author Name(s): Mu'tamid, Al-; Al-mu'tamid Of Sevilla
Subject(s): Fountains; Water


THE FOUNTAIN, by GLADYS CROMWELL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: My garden fountain sings tonight
Last Line: And dream of sorrow's girding spheres.
Subject(s): Fountains; Gardens & Gardening


THE FOUNTAIN, by DONALD DAVIE                        Poet's Biography
First Line: Feathers up fast, and steeples; then in clods
Subject(s): Berkeley, George (1685-1753); Fountains


THE FOUNTAIN, by JEAN KAMPSCHROEDER    Poem Text                    
First Line: Sparkle in the sunlight, fountain
Last Line: Waiting for the coming day.
Subject(s): Fountains


THE FOUNTAIN, by DENISE LEVERTOV    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
Subject(s): Fountains


THE FOUNTAIN, by JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Into the sunshine, full of the light
Last Line: Fresh, changeful, constant, upward, like thee!
Subject(s): Fountains


THE FOUNTAIN, by SAMUEL ROGERS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: It was a well / of whitest marble
Last Line: Winning all hearts -- of all thy works the fairest.
Subject(s): Fountains


THE FOUNTAIN, by EDWARD SHERBURNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Stranger, whoe'er thou art, that stoop'st to taste
Last Line: Twixt mortal life and immortality.
Subject(s): Fountains


THE FOUNTAIN, by KATHARINE TYNAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: That was the lorelei, tall within the jet
Last Line: Caught in the fountain.
Alternate Author Name(s): Hinkson, Katharine Tynan
Subject(s): Cologne, Germany; Fountains; Lorelei


THE FOUNTAIN, by JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Traveller! On thy journey toiling
Last Line: Of the indian and his well.
Subject(s): Fountains; Native Americans; Indians Of America; American Indians; Indians Of South America


THE FOUNTAIN (2), by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: On in the deep blue night
Last Line: And the gleaming dew-drops fell.
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Fountains


THE FOUNTAIN (3), by SARA TEASDALE    Poem Source         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fountain, fountain, why do you say
Alternate Author Name(s): Filsinger, Ernest B., Mrs.
Subject(s): Fountains


THE FOUNTAIN IN THE RAIN, by KATHARINE R. SIEGERT    Poem Text                    
First Line: When the storm clouds loose their torrents
Last Line: Like the fountain in the rain.
Subject(s): Fountains; Rain


THE FOUNTAIN IS SO HAPPY, by ANNETTE WYNNE    Poem Text                    
Last Line: And shares its joy with you
Subject(s): Fountains


THE FOUNTAIN OF MARAH, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Where is the tree the prophet threw
Last Line: From that blessed healing tree!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Fountains


THE FOUNTAIN OF PITY, by HENRY BATAILLE    Poem Text                    
First Line: Tears are within us. There is security
Last Line: And the tears weep also, as they flow away.
Subject(s): Children; Consolation; Fountains; Pity; Tears; Childhood


THE FOUNTAIN OF THE ACQUA PAOLA, by WILLIAM SHARP    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Not where thy turbid wave
Last Line: Thy turbid wave.
Alternate Author Name(s): Macleod, Fiona
Subject(s): Fountains; Rome, Italy


THE MARBLE FOUNTAIN, by WILLIAM WATSON    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: In calm and tempest, in shine and shade
Last Line: "is to play -- and play -- and play."
Alternate Author Name(s): Watson, John William
Subject(s): Fountains


THE PITCHER, by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Often at a wayside fountain
Last Line: "and the purple slate again."
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Fountains


THE PITY OF THE PARK FOUNTAIN, by NATHANIEL PARKER WILLIS    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Twas a summery day in the last of may
Last Line: And the fountain will play on!
Subject(s): Fountains; New York City - 19th Century


TO A FOUNTAIN, by PIERRE DE RONSARD    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O lovely bellerie
Subject(s): Fountains


TRIUMPHS OF ORIANA: MADRIGAL, by THOMAS MORLEY    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Hard by a crystal fountain
Last Line: Long live fair oriana!'
Subject(s): Fountains


VARIATIONS: 5, by CONRAD AIKEN    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: From the cold fountain's sunlit lip
Last Line: The vanishing jewels with his wings.
Subject(s): Fountains


WASTED FOUNTAINS, by ANNE CHARLOTTE LYNCH BOTTA    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the youthful fever of the soul
Last Line: Whereon angels come and go.
Subject(s): Fountains