A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon-lover! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething, As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing, A mighty fountain momently... The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 - Page 630edited by - 1902 - 1084 pagesFull view - About this book
| George Rhett Cathcart - American literature - 1878 - 446 pages
...in our language. A savage place! as holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted I?v woman wailing for her demon-lover! And from this chasm,...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... | |
| Amelia Ann Blanford Edwards - 1879 - 390 pages
...incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green...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... | |
| Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1880 - 512 pages
...incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green...thresher's flail : And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and fier It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and... | |
| Henry Cabot Lodge - English poetry - 1880 - 408 pages
...holy and enchanted As e'er beneath a waning moon was haunted By woman wailing for her demon lover! And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,...motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1880 - 582 pages
...; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Infolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh! that deep chasm which slanted Down the green hill athwart a...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.... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1880 - 584 pages
...ancient as the hills, Infolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh! that deep chasm which slanted Down Ihe green hill athwart a cedarn cover ! A savage place...rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's Hail : And 'mid these dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the sacred river. Five miles... | |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson - American poetry - 1880 - 488 pages
...were breathing, A mighty fountain momently was forced : Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst Hnge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy...motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean : 126 127 And 'mid this... | |
| William Wordsworth - 1889 - 308 pages
...walls and towers were girdled round; And there were gardens, bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree; And here were forests...Through wood and dale, the sacred river ran, — Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean ; And mid this tumult... | |
| Henry Troth Coates - American poetry - 1881 - 1138 pages
...incense-bearing tree; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh ! ing. " 0 Alice Brand, my native land Is lost for love of you ; Ami we must hold by wood and reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean : And 'mid this tumult... | |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1881 - 592 pages
...incense-bearing tree ; And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery. But oh ! that deep romantic chasm which slanted Down the green...dancing rocks at once and ever It flung up momently the saered river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the saered river ran,... | |
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