 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879 - 318 pages
...beauty. To match this line, and the three before it we may quote from Coleridge's Kobla Khan : — " Five miles, meandering with a mazy motion Through...to man And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean." And from Lander's Uelnr (wbich Shelley so loved), concerning a sea-shell when held to the ear : — " And... | |
 | Robert S. Bevier - Missouri - 1879 - 538 pages
...gazed at the moon in the azure sky and the silent flow of the muddy waters, I thought of " Kubla Khan." "Five miles, meandering with a mazy motion, Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reach'd the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean ; And 'mid the tumult... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 390 pages
...thresher's flail: And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, 28 KUBLA KHAN. Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tutriult to a lifeless ocean... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - English poetry - 1880 - 408 pages
...thresher's flail: And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood...the mingled measure From the fountain and the caves. !t was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice! A damsel with a dulcimei... | |
 | Theology - 1880 - 460 pages
...hardly rash to call it the first poem of the language." Especially he dotes over these lines in it :. " Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood...heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying, war." It is not wonderful that a poet who himself revels to excess in melodious words should go into ecstasies... | |
 | George Henry Calvert - Literary Criticism - 1880 - 316 pages
...while still swollen with genial warmth. Genius, the master, cannot do without talent, the servant. " Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood...measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean : " To present of a sudden to the mind a signal thought, which springs unexpectedly but appropriately... | |
 | Mary Rosa Stuart Kettle - 1880 - 426 pages
...course, to court fortune after their own lawless and desperate fashion. CHAPTEE XIII. SUMMER DAY-DREAMS. "The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway...mingled measure From the fountain and the caves." COLERIDGE. BEATRICE attempted no concealment, from this time forward, of the gratification it afforded... | |
 | Education - 1925 - 702 pages
...thresher's flail, And mid those dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood...ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sunk in tumult in a lifeless ocean; And midst this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying... | |
 | Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1880 - 584 pages
...thresher's Hail : And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood...ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, 126 127 And 'mid this tumult Kubla beard from far Ancestral voices prophecying war ! The shadow of... | |
 | Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...thresher's flail ; And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and It flungup momently the sacred river, [ever Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, [man, Then reached the caverns measureless to And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean ; And 'mid this... | |
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Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail : And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river... 
