Read full poem →Taught them with facts. One rear’d a font of stone
And drew, from butts of water on the slope, 60
Dictionary Entry
A receptacle in a church for holy water, especially one used in baptism.
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Poetry examples for “font”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →Parfumés; et leurs doigts électriques et doux
Font crépiter, parmi ses grises indolences,
Sous leurs ongles royaux la mort des petits poux.
Read full poem →Sometimes these glosses wrap onto the next line, still in the
right margin. If you read this e-text using a monospaced font
(like Courier in a word processor such as MS Word, or the
Read full poem →Here’s the font where Douglas stane and mortar names;
Lately used at Caily christening Murray’s crimes.
Read full poem →The early Mormons made a settlement
And built a stone baptismal font outdoors--
But Smith, or some one, called them off the mountain
Read full poem →Quitting the fruit, seiz’d on my heart alone,
And threw it in a font, wherein did fall
A stream of blood, which issued from the side