 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, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean...  The Poems of Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Page 164by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1848 - 384 pagesFull view - About this book
 | Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1877 - 416 pages
...mighty fountain momently was forced : * Sa/u.epoj' — 1816. Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy...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 this tumult... | |
 | 1877 - 832 pages
...words, and yet how they swell and become translucent with the glow that lives in them. Or, again:— Five miles meandering with a mazy motion, Through...measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean. Wordsworth has it wherever he is raised as it were out of himself:— The Rainbow comes and goes, And... | |
 | University magazine - 1877 - 810 pages
...words, and yet how they swell and become translucent with the glow that lives in them. Or, again: — Five miles meandering with a mazy motion, Through...wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverne measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean. "Wordsworth has it wherever he... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced, Amid whose swift, half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy...man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean ; And 'raid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war. The shadow of the dome of... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - 1878 - 726 pages
...Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea. " And again : " Five miles meandering with a mazy motion, Through...lifeless ocean ; And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard fromfar Ancestral voices prophesying war ! " This short poem is a very triumph of art Every line is... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1878 - 446 pages
...pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced ; Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy...grain beneath the thresher's flail : And "mid these daucing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a... | |
 | James Burton (schoolmaster.) - 1878 - 124 pages
...which flies the higher pitch. He proceeded a long time in this manner. He has just this moment gone. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion through wood and dale the sacred river ran. I thought I heard some minutes past sounds as of a castle-bell. The island lies nine leagues away.... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 390 pages
...pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced; Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy...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... | |
 | 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 - 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... | |
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