 | Mary Mapes Dodge, William Fayal Clarke, Albert Gallatin Lanier, Maurice R. Robinson - 1896 - 572 pages
...the poet, fell asleep and dreamed the famous poem beginning with these lines : In Xanadu did Kublai Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree, Where Alph, the...here were forests, ancient as the hills, Enfolding spots of sunny greenery. vast quantity of precious objects of art and rare fabrics, was known as the... | |
 | Oswald Crawfurd - 1896 - 494 pages
...cheerful godliness ; and yet thy heart The lowliest duties on herself did lay. W. Wordnaorth. CCXCVIIL KUBLA KHAN. IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome...there were gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossom'd many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny... | |
 | Marshman William Hazen - 1896 - 536 pages
...Mariner," but "Odes," "Kubla Khan," " Christabcl," and "Genevieve" are full of melody and passion. I. KUBLA KHAN. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome...ground With walls and towers were girdled round; And here were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here... | |
 | Samuel Silas Curry - 1896 - 388 pages
...asleep ; And all that mighty heart is lying stilL Wordsworth. KTTBLA KHAN. IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and...ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover ! A savage... | |
 | William Ernest Henley - 1897 - 522 pages
...your gates, and let me gae free, For it's up with the bonnets of Bonny Dundee ! Sir Walter Scott. 348 KUBLA KHAN IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome...ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But O ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover ! A savage... | |
 | Angela Esterhammer - 1994 - 276 pages
...chapters of Genesis, and Kubla's pleasure-dome mimics the dome-shaped firmament of Hebrew cosmology: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree:...ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. (Complete Poetical Works 1:297) The final strophe of Coleridge's poem imagines an origin for the worlddome... | |
 | Jack Stillinger - 1994 - 268 pages
...a very different character, describing with equal fidelity the dream of pain and disease. — 1816. KUBLA KHAN. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome...rills Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; 21 stone had] stone has 1816 27 dar'st] darest 1828, 1829 35 Avoiov] Saneoov 1816, 1828, 1829 37 —1816]... | |
 | Rodney Stenning Edgecombe - 1994 - 290 pages
...participation in its pleasances. Let us compare the sort of garden that Coleridge projects in Kubla Khan: So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and...ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. 84 Here the passive voice of "girdled" has the effect of deleting human agency, and the ancient forests... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...one that hath been stunned, And is of sense forlom: A sadder and a wiser man, He rose the morrow mom. KUBLA KHAN In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome...tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, 10 Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pages
...most happy marriage I can imagine to myself would be the union of a deaf man to a blind woman. 2438 sure the sur 2439 'Kubla Khan' It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice. 2440 'Kubla... | |
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IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree : Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round : And there were gardens... 
