 | John Earle - English language - 1873 - 702 pages
...nursery. I like Coleridge's Kubla Khan for its exquisite cadence. That whole passage beginning— " 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" — has a most fascinating melody. I don't... | |
 | Samuel Orchart Beeton - American poetry - 1873 - 782 pages
...rest their oars and say, Miserere Domine ! Coleridge. — Born 1772, Died 1834. 1509.— KUBLA KHAN. is Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With... | |
 | John Earle - English language - 1873 - 736 pages
...nursery. I like Coleridge's Kubla Kban for its exquisite cadence. That whole passage beginning — " 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 " — has a most fascinating melody. I... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1874 - 798 pages
...love, — and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart ! On Tahing leave of , 1817. 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. Kubla Khan. A damsel with a dulcimer In a... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1874 - 470 pages
...character, describing with equal fidelity the dream of pain and disease. Note to the first Edition, i8i6. 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... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1874 - 600 pages
...release. Then to the noblest princes fellow might he be. WARTON : Little Garden of Roses. KIJBLA KHAN. 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... | |
 | John Bartlett - Quotations - 1875 - 890 pages
...love, — and then to part, Makes up life's tale to many a feeling heart 1 On Taking leave of - , 1817. 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. fCubla Khan. Ancestral voices prophesying... | |
 | Francis Turner Palgrave - Children's poetry - 1875 - 168 pages
...Dunfermline gray When all the bells were ringing. Sir W. Scott ' 56* KUBLA KHAN A Vision in a Dream 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. 5 So twice five miles of fertile ground With... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1875 - 584 pages
...Then to the noblest princes fellow might he be. WARTÔN: Little Garden of Bauet. KUBLA KHAN. IN Nanadu 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... | |
 | Robert Ellis Thompson, William Wilberforce Newton, Otis H. Kendall - 1876 - 1012 pages
...the Just. And what is the source of the thrill with which we read Coleridge's poem which begins — 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 — if it be not the mysterious remoteness... | |
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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... 
