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Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Searching... Subject: FOUNTAINS Matches Found: 80 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 |
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