In the deserts of the heart Let the healing fountain start, In the prison of his days Teach the free man how to praise.

-Auden,W(ystan) H(ugh)
  'In Memory of  W.B.Yeats', pt.3.

Let thy fountain be blessed: and rejoice with the wife of thy youth.Let her be as the loving hind and pleasant roe; let her breasts satisfy thee at all times; and be thou ravished always with her love.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Proverbs 5:18^19.

Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because theyare few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of musick shall be brought low: Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goeth to his long home, and mournersgo about the streets: Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Ecclesiastes12:1^7.

   A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Song of Solomon 4:12.

They have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.

-Bible (Old Testament)
Jeremiah 2:13.

Out of the same mouth proceedeth blessing and cursing. My brethren, these things ought not so to be. Dotha fountainsend forthatthesameplacesweet water and bitter?

-Bible (NewTestament)
James 3:10^11.

I will give unto him that is athirst of the fountain of the water of life freely.

-Bible (NewTestament)
Revelation 21:6.

Almighty God, the fountain of all goodness.

-Book of Common Prayer
Morning Prayer, Prayer for the Royal Family.

  And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced.

-Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
  'Kubla Khan'.

Now we lament one Who danced on a plume of words, Sang with a fountain's panache, Dazzled like slate roofs in sun After rain, was flighty as birds And alone as a mountain ash. The ribald, inspired urchin Leaning over the lip Of his world, as over a rock pool Or a lucky dip, Found everything brilliant and virgin.

-Day-Lewis, Cecil
  'In Memory of Dylan Thomas'.

A perpetual fountain of good sense.

-Dryden,John
  Of Chaucer. Fables  Ancient and Modern, preface.

Climbing over rocky mountain, Skipping rivulet and fountain.

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)
  Girls'chorus, The Pirates of Penzance, act1.

The dark notes rose everywhere, so dark, so sombre, they broke into a fountainölight as the rainbowö sparkling and immaterial as invisible sources and echoes. The savannahs grew lonelyas the sea and broke again into a wave and forest. Tall trees with black marching boots and feet were clad in the spurs and sharp wings of a butterfly.

-Harris, Rolf
  The Palace of the Peacock, ch.11.

The fellows were practising long shies and bowling lobs and slow twisters. In the soft grey silence he could hear the bump of the balls: and from here and from there through the quiet air the sound of the cricket bats: pick, pack, pock, puck: like drops of water in a fountain falling softly in the brimming bowl.

-Joyce,James Augustine Aloysius
  A Portrait of the Artist as aYoung Man.

For we were nursed upon the self-same hill, Fed the same flock; by fountain, shade, and rill.

-Milton,John
  Lycidas, l.23^4.

Methinks I see in my mind a noble and puissant nation rousing herself like a strong man after sleep, and shaking her invincible locks: methinks I see her as an eagle mewing her mighty youth, and kindling her undazzled eyes at the full midday beam; purging and unscaling her long-abused sight at the fountain itself of heavenly radiance; while the whole noise of timorous birds, with those also that love thetwilight, flutterabout, amazed at what she means.

-Milton,John
  Areopagitica: a speech for the liberty of unlicensed printing.

If your daughters are inclined to love reading, do not check their inclination by hindering them of the diverting part of it. It is as necessary for the amusement of women as the reputation of men; but teach them not to expect anyapplause from it† Ignorance is as much the fountain of vice as idleness, and indeed generally produces it. People that do not read or work for a livelihood have many hours they know not how to employ, especially women, who commonly fall into vapours or something worse.

-Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley ne¤  e Pierrepoint
  Letter,  Jan. Collected in R Halsband (ed) Selected Letters of Lady Mary  Wortley Montagu (1970).

   It is the man of science, eager to have his every opinion regenerated, his every idea rationalized, by drinking at the fountain of fact, and devoting all the energies of his life to the cult of truth, not as he understands it, but as he does not yet understand it, that ought properly to be called a philosopher.

-Pierce, C(harles) S(aunders)
SelectedWritings,'Lessons on the History of Science'.

No pleasing Intricacies intervene, No artful wildness to perplex the scene; Grove nods at grove, each a mirror of the other. The suff'ring eye inverted Nature sees, Trees cut to Statues, Statues thick as trees, With here a Fountain, never to be play'd, And there a Summer-house, that knows no shade; Here Amphitrite sails thro'myrtle bow'rs There Gladiators fight, or die, in flow'rs Un-water'd see the drooping sea-horse mourn, And swallows roost in Nilus'dusty Urn.

-Pope, Alexander
Epistles to Several Persons,'To Lord Burlington', l.115^25.

   Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor; This year a reservoir, to keep and spare, The next a fountain, spouting through his heir, In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him 'till they burst.

-Pope, Alexander
  Epistles to Several Persons,'To Lord Bathurst', l.173^8.