John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
5275 Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772-1834 John Bartlett
| NUMBER: | 5275 |
| AUTHOR: | Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834) |
| QUOTATION: | In the hexameter rises the fountain’s silvery column, In the pentameter aye falling in melody back. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | The Ovidian Elegiac Metre. (From Schiller.) |