 I would build that dome in air, That sunny dome! those caves of ice! And all who heard should see them there, And all should cry, Beware!  Lord Roldan - Page 173by Allan Cunningham - 1836Full view - About this book
 | Charles Lamb - 1855 - 634 pages
...its beauty than this was his recitation of Kubla Khan. As he repeated the passage — A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw : It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mont Abora ' his voice seemed to mount and melt into air as the... | |
 | Charles Godfrey Leland - Dreams - 1856 - 300 pages
...light that is clearer than day. PEAED. Like the faint, exquisite music of a dream. A damsel with a dulcimer, In a vision once I saw ; It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played Singing of Mount Abora. - Breathed into a pipe of sycamore Some strangely moving... | |
 | George Wilson - Knowledge, Theory of - 1856 - 146 pages
...point, we never fully dream a sound. Coleridge in his " Kubla Khan " declares : — " A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw : It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora." But this was the visionary vision of a poet ; in... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - English poetry - 1857 - 432 pages
...the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice ! A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw : It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abors, Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To... | |
 | William Maginn, Robert Shelton Mackenzie - 1857 - 514 pages
...Vision in a Dream"—composed (he averred) in sleep — has the following lines :— "A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw: It was an Abyssinian maid, _ And on a dulcimer she played, and water—(it appears in the hand of a plebeian—body unknown—... | |
 | Leigh Hunt - 1859 - 550 pages
...caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome, with caves of ice ! A damsel with a dulcimer . In a vision once I saw : It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she plaifd, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To... | |
 | William Allingham - English poetry - 1860 - 316 pages
...the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice ! A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw : It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she play'd, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To... | |
 | William Makepeace Thackeray - Electronic journals - 1870 - 834 pages
...surprise ; so I explained that I had been anxious to ascertain the truth of Coleridge's lines, — A damsel with n dulcimer In a vision once I saw — It wits her Abyssinian maid, And on a dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora. The answer was satisfactory.... | |
 | Thomas Shorter - 1861 - 438 pages
...the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice ! A damsel with a dulcimer, In a vision once I saw : It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she play'd, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, To... | |
 | Samuel Taylor Coleridge - 1861 - 448 pages
...the caves. It was a miracle of rare device, A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice ! A damsel with a dulcimer In a vision once I saw : It was an Abyssinian maid, And on her dulcimer she played, Singing of Mount Abora. Could I revive within me Her symphony and song, That... | |
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