In a note published with this poem, its author lamented how "a thousand circlets spread, / and each mis-shape the other".
In a note published with this poem, its author lamented how "a thousand circlets spread, / and each mis-shape the other". Its speaker compares a fountain to "chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail" after describing "forests ancient as the hills" and "gardens bright with sinuous rills". Its speaker tells of a vision of an Abyssinian maid playing a dulcimer and singing of Mount Abora and desires to build a structure featuring "caves of ice" near the river Alph so that people will cry "Beware! Beware! / His flashing eyes, his floating hair!" For 10 points, name this poem in which "a stately pleasure-dome" is decreed in Xanadu by the title emperor, a work of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
In a note published with this poem, its author lamented how "a thousand circlets spread, / and each mis-shape the other".
“{Kubla Khan}”