I N 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... Christabel... - Page 69by Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1905 - 157 pagesFull view - About this book
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1877 - 408 pages
...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...walls and towers were girdled round : And there were t gardens bright with sinuous rills Where blossom'd many an incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests... | |
| 1877 - 664 pages
...artistic fancy, this " sunny spot of greenerie " recalls Coleridge's description in " Kubla Khan : " " So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were circled round ; And there were gardens bright with sinuous nils Where blossomed many an incense-bearing... | |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 274 pages
...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...the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But, O, that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover ! A savage place... | |
| George Rhett Cathcart - 1878 - 446 pages
...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...many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancicnt as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted... | |
| Laura Valentine - 1880 - 634 pages
...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...ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. [slanted But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover ! A savage... | |
| William Henry Davenport Adams - 1880 - 464 pages
...Alph, the sacred river, ran, By caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea. So twice five inches of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled...ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery ."3 The principal palace of the Great Khan was situated, however, at Cambaluc (the modern Peking),... | |
| Henry Cabot Lodge - 1880 - 408 pages
...stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,...the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But O! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover! A savage place... | |
| 1925 - 702 pages
...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 here were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And there... | |
| Mary Rosa Stuart Kettle - 1880 - 426 pages
...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 here were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; And here... | |
| Harry Willard French - 1880 - 384 pages
...of fertile ground With walks and trees were girded round; And here were gardens, bright with summer rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;...as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery." That description by Coleridge is too perfect to venture another in its place. Now the riders were lost... | |
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