''As near and far as grass,
Where eyes become the sunlight, and the hand
Is worthy of water: the dreamt land
Toward which all hungers leap, all pleasures pass.''
Richard Wilbur (b. 1921), U.S. poet. A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra (l. 56-60). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Al...
''the main jet
Struggling aloft unti it seems at rest
In the act of rising, until
The very wish of water is reversed,''
Richard Wilbur (b. 1921), U.S. poet. A Baroque Wall-Fountain in the Villa Sciarra (l. 31-34). . .
Norton Anthology of Poetry, The. Alexander W. Al...
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