To such a deep delight 'twould win me;" however, that Abyssinian maid's music contrasts with "ancestral voices prophesying war."
In the preface to this poem, the author references Theocritus's Idyls in saying that "I shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow, but the to-morrow is yet to come." The poem itself compares "huge fragments" to "rebounding hail, / Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail." The main action of this work is set near "caves of ice" and a "deep romantic chasm" through which the river Alph meanders, and, later on, its poet describes a "damsel with a dulcimer" whose "symphony and song / To such a deep delight 'twould win me;" however, that Abyssinian maid's music contrasts with "ancestral voices prophesying war." A visitor from Porlock interrupted,.FTP, which opium trip of a poem in which "a stately pleasure-dome" is decreed in Xanadu by the titular Mongol emperor, a work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge?
In the preface to this poem, the author references Theocritus's Idyls in saying that "I shall sing a sweeter song tomorrow, but the to-morrow is yet to come.
"Kubla Khan or a Vision in a Dream. A Fragment"