 | English poetry - 1885 - 684 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...ocean : And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far 1 Ancestral voices prophesying war ! The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves;... | |
 | Thomas Young Crowell - English poetry - 1885 - 702 pages
...dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a ma1y motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,...lifeless ocean : And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from 326 SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE. 3*7 The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves; Where... | |
 | Alfred Hix Welsh - English language - 1882 - 1134 pages
...ever, It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a haty motion. Through irood lsh In a different mood and manner is Love. How trancingly rolls its melody: 'All thoughts, all passions,... | |
 | Northrop Frye, Professor Robert D Denham - Literary Criticism - 1997 - 592 pages
...that the one deals with the contemplation of the world-as-idea and the other with the will to power: Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood...measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean. [Kubla K/ian, lines 25—81 From the depth of the dreamy decline of the dawn through a notable nimbus... | |
 | C. C. Barfoot, Theo d'. Haen - Literary Criticism - 1998 - 308 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...measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean ... (ll. 17-28) This is followed by a couplet which reminds us of the threats to civilized equilibrium,... | |
 | Mario Klarer - American literature - 1999 - 180 pages
...pronunciation of words, as in these lines from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's (1772-1834) "KuhlaKhan" (1816): Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank...in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kuhla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war! The syllahles "an" at the end of the first two... | |
 | Carmela Ciuraru - American poetry - 2001 - 278 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...ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war! The shadow of the dome of pleasure... | |
 | Alan Rauch - Literary Criticism - 2001 - 308 pages
...Portahle Coleridge, ed. IA Richards [Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1977], 157) is another case in point: Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood...measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean, (lines 25-28) 15 The flood has generated more critical attention than can be addressed here. Among... | |
 | Rodney Farnsworth - Art - 2001 - 360 pages
...Thames and by the alliteration of the liquid consonant m: I:we miles meandering with mazy motion Ihrough wood and dale the sacred river ran. Then reached the caverns measureless to man [ ...] lIL 25-27l. Ibis marks only one of two essential moods of the river within the poem. After the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Poetry - 2002 - 92 pages
...thresher's flail: And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. 25 Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood...lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far 30 Ancestral voices prophesying war! A Xanadu Kubla Khan volle un'imponente dimora di piacere, dove... | |
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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... 
