 | Amelia B. Edwards - English poetry - 1878 - 376 pages
...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,...lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war! The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves ;... | |
 | Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - 1878 - 274 pages
...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,...lifeless ocean : And mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war ! The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves ;... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1878 - 826 pages
...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,...ocean : And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war! The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves ;... | |
 | Graeme Mercer Adam, George Stewart - Anthologies - 1878 - 726 pages
...caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea. " And again : " Five miles meandering with a mazy motion, Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,...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... | |
 | Charles Anderson Dana - 1878 - 882 pages
...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...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... | |
 | Herbert Courthope Bowen - 1879 - 382 pages
...three before it we may quote from Coleridge's Jfvbla, Khan : — " Five miles, meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale, the sacred river ran,...to man And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean." And from Lander's Gebir (which Shelley so loved), concerning a sea-shell when held to the ear : — " And... | |
 | Robert S. Bevier - Missouri - 1879 - 538 pages
..."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 Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war." And then as I drew my breath, aird... | |
 | Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 390 pages
...sacred river ran, 28 KUBLA KHAN. Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tutriult to a lifeless ocean : And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war! The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves ;... | |
 | Theology - 1880 - 460 pages
...of the language." Especially he dotes over these lines in it :. " Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran,...lifeless ocean ; And mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying, war." It is not wonderful that a poet who himself revels to excess in... | |
 | Henry Cabot Lodge - English poetry - 1880 - 408 pages
...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,...lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war! The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves; Where... | |
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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... 
