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''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.''
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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...
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''—the main jet
Struggling aloft unti it seems at rest
In the act of rising, until
The very wish of water is reversed,''
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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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