 | Charles Lamb, Sir Thomas Noon Talfourd - 1850 - 474 pagina’s
...more peculiar in its beauty than this was his recitation of Kubla Khan. As he repeated the passage — A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw :...Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mont Abora ! his voice seemed to mount and melt into air as the images grew more visionary, and the... | |
 | John Aikin - 1850 - 764 pagina’s
...child! * A botanical mistake. The plant which the pott hes describe* is called the ban's tongue. 3 A 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 A bora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight... | |
 | Robert Chambers - 1851 - 764 pagina’s
...was heard the mingled measure From the fountain and the caves. It was a ¡¡ii • ;i.-[. • oflare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice I...maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Ahora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such deep delight 'twould win me, That with... | |
 | Phineas Camp Headley - 1851 - 294 pagina’s
...keenly sensible to the delights of music and motion, as was Coleridge in his dream, when, as he says, " 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." Queen Balkis could have further tried to slake her soul's thirst with... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1851 - 282 pagina’s
...sentiment of music, so varied with it, and yet leaving on the ear so unbroken and single an effect. Jl 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... | |
 | 1852 - 460 pagina’s
...the waves ; Where was heard the mingled measure From the fountain and the caves. It was a miracle or rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice...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 - 1852 - 470 pagina’s
...fountain and the caves. It was a miracle or 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... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1852 - 460 pagina’s
...fountain and the caves. It was a miracle or 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... | |
 | Charles Lamb - 1852 - 684 pagina’s
...recitation of Kubla Khan. As he repeated the passage — A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I caw : s we walked ; and when we reached his staircase, he detained me with Mont Abora ! his voice seemed to mount, and melt into air, as the images grew more visionary, and the... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1853 - 622 pagina’s
...fountain and the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sonny 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 pluy'd, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To such a deep delight... | |
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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! 
