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Subject: SPRINGS (WATER)
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First Line: Even today from the hill, whose back ripples
Last Line: And panting to put new industries in train, %an engine whistles
Subject(s): Landscape; Springs (water)


BARTON SPRINGS, by TONY HOAGLAND    Poem Text         Poet Analysis         Recitation     Poet's Biography
First Line: Oh life, how I loved your cold spring mornings of putting my stuff in
Last Line: There just might be time to catch up on praise
Subject(s): Springs (water); Swimming And Swimmers; Cancer (disease)


FOR A FOREST WALKER, by WILLIAM ELLERY LEONARD    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Quaff the mid-forest spring! Sink palms and knees
Last Line: Seven times repeated on the crimson air!
Subject(s): Forests; Springs (water); Woods


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)


GOB-NY-USHTEY (WATER'S MOUTH), by THOMAS EDWARD BROWN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: I saw a little stream today
Last Line: What manners of th' extremely early gods?
Alternate Author Name(s): Brown, T. E.
Subject(s): Springs (water)


HOW SPRINGS CAME FIRST, by ROBERT HERRICK    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: These springs were maidens once that loved
Last Line: In nothing changed but in their name.
Subject(s): Springs (water)


LOST VALLEY, by GLENN WARD DRESBACH    Poem Text                    
First Line: I found it on a morning when the wings
Last Line: Share some of it with you.
Subject(s): Springs (water)


ODES III, 13. TO THE FOUNTAIN BANDUSIA, by QUINTUS HORATIUS FLACCUS    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: O fountain of bandusia, clearer than crystal
Last Line: From which leap your loquacious waters
Alternate Author Name(s): Horace
Subject(s): Springs (water)


OUR LADY'S WELL, by FELICIA DOROTHEA HEMANS    Poem Text         Poet Analysis             Poet's Biography
First Line: Fount of the woods! Thou art hid no more
Last Line: Who hath made thee nature's own again!
Alternate Author Name(s): Browne, Felicia Dorothea
Subject(s): Mary. Mother Of Jesus; Ruins; Springs (water); Women In The Bible; Virgin Mary


SILVER SPRING, by JAMES RYDER RANDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: When the lord of light revealed
Last Line: Undine! Undine! Thou are princess of the parables of old!
Subject(s): Nature; Spring; Springs (water)


SONNET: 1. A MOUNTAIN SPRING, by HENRY CLARENCE KENDALL    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Peace hath an altar there. The sounding feet
Last Line: Whose likeness is the faithless face of rose.
Subject(s): Mountains; Springs (water); Hills; Downs (great Britain)


SPRING, by ROSE FYLEMAN    Poem Source                     Poet's Biography
First Line: A little mountain spring I found
Last Line: Belonged by rights to him
Subject(s): Animals; Frogs; Springs (water)


THE OLD SPRING, by MADISON JULIUS CAWEIN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Under rocks whereon the rose
Last Line: Falling, flowing, wild and white.
Subject(s): Springs (water)


THE POEMS OF COLD MOUNTAIN: 82, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Spring water is pure in an emerald stream
Last Line: Focus on emptiness and the world grows still
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Quiet Life; Silence; Springs (water)


THE POEMS OF PICKUP: 49, by HAN SHAN    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Woods and springs make me smile
Last Line: All I hear is noise
Alternate Author Name(s): Kanzan; Hanshan; Han-shan
Subject(s): Chinese Literature; Forests; Happiness; Nature; Springs (water); Woods; Joy; Delight


THE SPRINGS OF FONTANA, by AGNES MARY F. ROBINSON    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: The springs of fontana well high on the mountain
Last Line: Springs of fontana!
Alternate Author Name(s): Duclaux, Madame Emile; Darmesteter, Mary; Robinson, A. Mary F.
Subject(s): Italy; Springs (water); Italians


THIRTY-THIRD SPRING, by RODNEY TYNAN JACK    Poem Source                    
First Line: Past a huge toppled pine
Last Line: Withstanding my own blight, I will %behold this sight again
Subject(s): Aging; Springs (water)


TO A MOUNTAIN SPRING, by RICHARD THOMAS LE GALLIENNE    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Strange little spring, by channels past our telling
Last Line: Dancing, dimpling, welling, welling.
Subject(s): Springs (water)


TO A SPRING IN THE CUMBERLANDS, by EFFIE WALLER SMITH    Poem Text                     Poet's Biography
First Line: Gurgling spring in sylvan beauty
Last Line: You will ever here abide.
Subject(s): Beauty; Cumberland Mountains; Springs (water)


VERSES ON THE SPRINGS AT BATH, by ? GROVES    Poem Source                    
First Line: When bladud once espied some hogs
Last Line: The hogs thus banished by their prince, %have liv'd in bristol ever since
Subject(s): Bath, England; Mythology; Pigs; Springs (water)