 And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick 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...  Education - Page 771925Full view - About this book
 | 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... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 274 pages
...fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beucath the thresher's flail : And mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently...ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean : And mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying... | |
 | Amelia B. Edwards - 1878 - 358 pages
...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...ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1878 - 826 pages
...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...ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean : And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying... | |
 | George Rhett Cathcart - 1878 - 446 pages
...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...ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean; And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying... | |
 | 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...ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man. And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean ; And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard fromfar Ancestral voices prophesying... | |
 | 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
...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...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...ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean." And from Lander's Uelnr (wbich Shelley so loved), concerning a... | |
 | 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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