Nature

Fountains

by James Elroy Flecker 1884–1915

From Forty-Two Poems (1911)

Nature

Soft is the collied night, and cool
The wind about the garden pool.
Here will I dip my burning hand
And move an inch of drowsy sand,
And pray the dark reflected skies
To fasten with their seal mine eyes.
A million million leagues away
Among the stars the goldfish play,
And high above the shadowed stars
Wave and float the nenuphars.

MLA

Flecker, James Elroy. “Fountains.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/flecker/18/.

Chicago

Flecker, James Elroy. “Fountains.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/flecker/18/.

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