...KUBLA KHAN. SUGGESTED TO THE AUTHOR BY A PASSAGE W PUECHAS's PILGRIMAGE. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan1 A stately pleasure-dome decree, Where Alph, the sacred...fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round ; Ynd here were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Vhere blossom'd many an incense-bearing tree ; Vnd...

...standing by to make way for it. Now for the architecture and landscape gardening of the poet : — In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree,...miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girded round : And here were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing...

...standing by to make way for it. TSo-w for the architecture and landscape gardening of the poet : — In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree,...miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girded round : And here were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing...

...lord, standing by to make way for it. Now for the architecture and landscape gardening of the poet:— In Xanadu did Kubla Khan • A stately pleasure-dome...miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girded round : And here were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing...

...different character, describing with equal fidelity the dream of pain and disease —1816. / V KUBLA KHAN. IN Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree...rills -, Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree ; .T And here were forests ancient as the hills, Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.- • • But oh...

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...describing with <?<iun.l ftde&ty ths dream of pain and disease.— Л"о!е to Uitßrst ErttM«, Шв.] ?mX c Z ݘ) Ճ A D K A\q L Ӈ ) ^ ۈ n I Atﯗ H KO}sd v sEġ Through caverns measureless to man. Down to a sunless sea. 54 So twice five miles of fertile ground...

...Marco Polo has left us a splendid description of the imperial palace at Xanadu, or Kambalu, — " Where twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round." Tbe picture is, indeed, dazzling and marvellous ; yet it does not appear, in any essential particular,...

...which he afterward committed to writing. The poem is entitled Kubla Khan, and begins as follows : " In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree ; Where Alph, the sacrtd river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea." It is evident from such...

...fable of the underground course of Alpheus that Coleridge alludes to in his poem of Kubla Khan: — " In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree, Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man, Down to a sunless sea." In one of Moore's juvenile poems he thus...