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Secular or Eclectic
20th Century

About Sara Teasdale

Timeline (1884 - 1933)

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Original Language
English

The Fountain

Themes
  Birds
  Heart
  Moon
  Night
  Sound

 

Recommended Books

Christmas Carol, by Sara Teasdale
The Collected Poems, by Sara Teasdale
Dark of the Moon, by Sara Teasdale
Rivers to the Sea, by Sara Teasdale

Oh in the deep blue night
     The fountain sang alone;
It sang to the drowsy heart
     Of a satyr carved in stone.

The fountain sang and sang
     But the satyr never stirred--
Only the great white moon
     In the empty heaven heard.

The fountain sang and sang
     And on the marble rim
The milk-white peacocks slept,
     Their dreams were strange and dim.

Bright dew was on the grass,
     And on the ilex dew,
The dreamy milk-white birds
     Were all a-glisten too.

The fountain sang and sang
     The things one cannot tell,
The dreaming peacocks stirred
     And the gleaming dew-drops fell.

 

1917

 

 

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