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Potential Titles: Fountain

Life's fountain springing from eternity - Lewis Grandison Alexander "Japanese Hokku"

Sifting through fountains of salt - Alise Alousi "All Guesses Are Wrong"

From thy stellar fountains flow - Benjamin West Ball "Hymn to Phosphor"

With five fish in a fountain - Mary Jo Bang "In the Book of All That's Befallen"

Where the marble fountains weep - Charles Baudelaire "A Landscape" transl. not credited

A spring which desires a fountain - Ilya Bekhtiya "I Searched for You" transl. by Aziz Isa Elkun

A golden ball in fountains dancing - Stephen Vincent Benet "The Quality of Courage"

Granite and steel upflung became my fountains - William Rose Benét "The City"

High sparkling fountains catch a rainbow light - William C.S. Blair "Byzantium"

When our fountains run empty - Jaswinder Bolina "The Reluctant Senator to His Provincial Mistress"

Unlocked a deep fountain - Emily Bronte "III [Loud without the wind was roaring]"

In fountains of sweet sound - Elizabeth Barrett Browning "The Seraphim"

Mighty fountains pure and strong - Roger Casement "Lost Youth"

As dipped in fabled fountains far away - "Changed" [The Continental Monthly v.1 no.5, May 1862]

Some fountain gurgling from the rifted rock - William Chiddon "Idyll: In Imitation of Theocritus"

Close to the fountain of our tears - Benjamin Copeland "St. Augustine"

At the fountain flowing for summer - Jim Daniels "One Arm Raised"

And fountains full of lemonade spout up - Marian Douglas "King and Queens"

Beyond the fountains of the dawn - Edward Dowden "La Revelation par le Desert"

Shape my mouth into a fountain - Carolina Ebeid "Relapsing/Remitting"

The fountains of my hidden life - Ralph Waldo Emerson "Friendship"

Fountain of smoke - Martin Espada "Not Here"

Where the fountains of gladness start - Mary Gardiner "The Song of Death"

Beyond the intensities of the fountain - Louise Gluck "Tributaries"

The deepest fountains of my soul - Grace Greenwood "To L--. With Some Poems"

To stir the sleeping fountain - Miss Mattie Griffith "The Deserted"

Fountains brimming with wine - Louise Imogen Guiney "Saint Cadoc's Bell"

From the bright fountain of her glory - Felicia Hemans "The Sceptic"

Rise from the heart's fountain - Felicia Hemans "Wallace's Invocation to Bruce"

Can streams surpass their fountains? - J.G. Holland "Kathrina Part II: Love"

And choke the fountains of the heart - S.S. Hornor "The Broken Reed"

The streams speak to the fountains - Victor Hugo "Truth" transl. by Harry Curwen

The infinite endeavour of a sad fountain - Aldous Huxley "The Garden"

Time's fountain and head - Islwyn "The Vision and the Faculty Divine" transl. by Edmund O. Jones

Resting by her carven fountain - Sade Iverson "Ten Square Feet of Garden"

Like empty pitchers to a full fountain - James Weldon Johnson "Listen, Lord--A Prayer"

Fountain of undescended love - C.R. Jury "A Sonnet to a Friend"

An endless fountain of immortal drink - John Keats "Endymion, Book I [A thing of beauty is a joy for ever]"

Bid the fountains leap in thirsty lands - Helen Keller "The Song of the Stone Wall"

Into the fountains of eternal light - Fanny Kemble "Sonnet [Away, away! bear me away, away]"

At the flowing fountain of his soul - Amy Levy "Xantippe"

Fountain of whispering and mystery - Vachel Lindsay "Alexander Campbell, III: A Rhymed Address to All Renegade Campbellites, Exhorting Them to Return"

Under the fountains and under the graves - Anonymous "Love's Enterprise"

Nearer to morning's fountains - James Russell Lowell "The Cathedral"

From conscious fountains more divine - James Russell Lowell "The Protest"

Collect my germs and make a fountain - Sally Wen Mao "Anna May Wong Stars as Cyborg #86"

Dead fountains in the sands - Edwin Markham "Wail of the Wandering Dead"

The fountain of a lower key - J. Michael Martinez "Treaty of Guadalupe"

The clear fountain of eternal day - Andrew Marvell "A Drop of Dew"

At the fountain's sliding foot - Andrew Marvell "The Garden"

Unspent fountains at the source - John Masefield "Philip the King"

An unloosened fountain of rapture - Edgar Lee Masters "Inexorable Deities"

The sadness of water fountains - Campbell McGrath "My Sadness"

Though the fountain reached my throat - Claude McKay "December, 1919"

Fair fountains of the dark - George Meredith "Earth and Man"

Wild choral fountains - Harriet Monroe "In the Yellowstone"

Leaping fountains breathe like melted gems - Robert Montgomery "Vision of Heaven" [Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction v.12 no.337, Oct. 25, 1828]

Whose fountains are forever dry - Morna "Ianthe"

Like the fish of a bitter fountain - Pablo Neruda "Battle of the Jarama River" translated by Richard Schaaf

Blood from the fountain of your soul - Pablo Neruda "Song on the Death and Resurrection of Luis Companys" translated by Donald D. Walsh

A fountain in an ocean of tears - Robert Nichols "The Tower"

Time is a ruined fountain - Achy Obejas "Slow"

Drown in a fountain of myriads - Frank O'Hara "Ann Arbor Variations"

That rush from the bitter fountain of the grieved - "Oration on Charles Sumner, Addressed to Colored People"

My heart hath sealed its fountains - Margaret Fuller Ossoli "Meditations"

Can madness from such fountains flow? - J. Ives Pease "My Love" [Graham's Magazine v.XXXIII no.5, Nov. 1848]

Our private fountain of youth - Andre F. Peltier "After Soccer Practice"

At the fountain of unquenchable desire - Charles Rafferty "A Demonstration of How One Thing Leads to Another"

And tastes the fountain unutterably deep - Christina Rossetti "Dream Love"

The play of fountains at night - Carl Sandburg "Choices"

A Cesium fountain spouts an arc of atoms - Lorraine Schein "The Garden of Time"

And waked to music all their fountains - Shelley "The Invitation, to Jane"

The fountains mingle with the river - Percy Bysshe Shelley "Love's Philosophy"

High and moon-suspended fountains - Clark Ashton Smith "Artemis"

Pale about the lifeless fountain - Edmund Clarence Stedman "Flood-Tide"

The crimson fountains of the dawn - George Sterling "Duandon"

The full fountain and the willow-tree - Elizabeth Drew Stoddard "In the Still, Star-Lit Night"

Giving too freely of the fountaining sap - Arthur Stringer "Before Renewal"

Fountains of darkness and tempest and thunder - Algernon Swinburne "The Death of Richard Wagner"

Wondrous fountains of joy and youth - Irvin W. Underhill "Winter to Spring"

When the fountains of feeling run - Ella Wheeler Wilcox "The Word"

Gold fountains of lions - Valerie Worth "Bull"


Don't take faucets for fountainheads - Dorothea Tanning "All Hallow's Eve"


A gin-fountain smashed by Carrie Nation - Wallace Irwin "An Inside Con to Refined Guys"


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