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fountful
adj 2
Definitions
adj
1
Full of fountains or springs.
c. 1718, Alexander Pope (translator), The Iliad of Homer, Book XV 'Go wait the Thunderer's will,' Saturnia cried, / 'On yon tall summit of the fountful Ide: / There in the Father's awful presence stand, / Receive and execute his dread command.'
The golden pleasures of love and song will me whole And in fountful recesses I'll repeat (beyond the ear of shepherds) The stories I heard in a dream, and your lambent kisses I stole And stood upon a hill surrounded by songful birds
2
Gushing.
Dost thou explore Sabrina's fountful source, Where huge Plinlimmon's hoary height afoends;
Far beyond the tangible love goeth When the matron's holy fountful breast Of the slumbering infant's breathings knoweth, Distant in its rosy curtained nest :
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