The first stanza of this poem describes walls and towers which surround "gardens bright with sinuous rills", and the third stanza features an "Abyssinian maid" playing the dulcimer for the narrator, who hopes others will cry "Beware!
The first stanza of this poem describes walls and towers which surround "gardens bright with sinuous rills", and the third stanza features an "Abyssinian maid" playing the dulcimer for the narrator, who hopes others will cry "Beware! His flashing eyes, his floating hair!" The poem mentions "caves of ice" where the title character hears "ancestral voices prophesying war" amidst the echoes of "Alph, the sacred river." which empties into "caverns measureless to man, down to a sunless sea." For 10 points, name this Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem about the title character's "stately pleasure-dome" in Xanadu.
The first stanza of this poem describes walls and towers which surround "gardens bright with sinuous rills", and the third stanza features an "Abyssinian maid" playing the dulcimer for the narrator, who hopes others will cry "Beware!
“Kubla {Khan}”