 | 1844 - 620 pages
...Even in the court of the great Kublai Khan poetry delights to place a damsel of this country, — ' It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora.' But in contemplating the present inhahitants of Ethiopia, the Gallas, whether converted to Christianity... | |
 | American periodicals - 1871 - 878 pages
...midway o'er the waves," interspersed with weird changes and outbursts such as only music knows : — " It was an Abyssinian maid. And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora! " Consider all this, and that the poem of which this is the fragment reached at least the length of... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 372 pages
...sentiment of music, so varied with it, and yet leaving on the ear so unbroken and single an effect. A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw; It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she play'd, Singing of Mount Abora. That is but one note of a music ever sweet, yet never cloying. It ceas'd;... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 542 pages
...Khan, as beginning with an exquisite oiece of music, and ending with a most poetical phantasm :— A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw; It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she play'd, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, , To such a deep delight... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome, with caves of ice ! A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw : It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she play'd, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight't... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 280 pages
...sentiment of music, so varied with it, and yet leaving on the ear so unbroken and single an effect. A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw; It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she play'd, Singing of Mount Abora. That is but one note of a music ever sweet, yet never cloying. It ceas'd;... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 520 pages
...Khan, as beginning with an exquisite niece of music, and ending with a most poetical phantasm : — A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw ; It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she play'd, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 278 pages
...sentiment of music, so varied with it, and yet leaving on the ear so unbroken and single an effect. A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw ; It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she play'd, Singing of Mount Mora. That ts but one note of a music ever sweet, yet never cloying. It ccas'd;... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1845 - 540 pages
...Khan, as beginning with an exquisite niece of music, and ending with a most poetical phantasm : — A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw ; It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she play'd, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - English poetry - 1845 - 372 pages
...with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw : It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she play' a, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight 't would win me, That with music loud and long, I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome I those... | |
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I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome! those caves of ice! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware! 
