 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...  The poetical works of S.T. Coleridge - Pagina 268door Samuel Taylor [poetical works] Coleridge - 1834Volledige weergave - Over dit boek
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1898 - 166 pagina’s
...river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, 25 Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in...prophesying war ! The shadow of the dome of pleasure 30 Floated midway on the waves ; Where was heard the mingled measure From the fountain and the caves.... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1898 - 804 pagina’s
...sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in...Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war ! 30 The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves ; Where was heard the mingled measure... | |
 | R. L. Brett - 1997 - 284 pagina’s
...Khan' we no longer perceive the dome itself; all we see is its reflection on the surface of the water: The shadow of the dome of pleasure Floated midway on the waves. The sun, which Coleridge employs throughout his poetry as a symbol of God, or the Absolute, casts its... | |
 | C. C. Barfoot, Theo d'. Haen - 1998 - 308 pagina’s
...sacred river. Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran, Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean ... (ll. 17-28) This is followed by a couplet which reminds us of the threats to civilized equilibrium,... | |
 | Connie Robertson - 1998 - 686 pagina’s
...'Kubla Khan' It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice. 2440 'Kubla Khan' 2441 So lonely 'twas that God himself Scarce seemed there to be. 2442 As long as there are readers... | |
 | C. C. Barfoot, Theo d'. Haen - 1998 - 306 pagina’s
...easily succumb to the other, with the creative act in particular being vulnerable to misdirection: And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war! (11. 29-30) The wonders of that civilized equilibrium, that reconciliation of oppositions, are represented... | |
 | Mario Klarer - 1999 - 180 pagina’s
...pronunciation of words, as in these lines from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's (1772-1834) "KuhlaKhan" (1816): Then reached the caverns measureless to man, And sank in tumult to a lifeless ocean: And 'mid this tumult Kuhla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war! The syllahles "an" at the end of the first two... | |
 | J. Douglas Kneale - 1999 - 250 pagina’s
...midway point, or halfway place, seems arbitrary, maybe even corny (think of Coleridge's "Kubla Khan": "The shadow of the dome of pleasure / Floated midway on the waves" [CPW i: 298]), but it is repeated and doubled in the second line: "Within the crescent of a pleasant... | |
 | Richard W. Bevis - 1999 - 442 pagina’s
...deep romantic chasm ...! /A savage place!"), he keeps reverting to juxtapositions of art and nature: "The shadow of the dome of pleasure / Floated midway on the waves"; "A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!"; and "I would build that dome in air, / That sunny dome!... | |
 | Edward Geoffrey Parrinder, Geoffrey Parrinder - 2000 - 389 pagina’s
...look backward to their ancestors. Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France ( 1 790) 2ii And 'mid this tumult Kubla heard from far Ancestral voices prophesying war. ST Coleridge, Kubla Khan(1S16) 21 That friend of mine who lives in God. Alfred Tennyson, In Memonam,... | |
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