Kubla Khan

(An exerpt)

Kubla Khan

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1797


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.

So twice five miles of fertile ground
With walls and towers were girdled round:
And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills,
Where blossomed many an incense-bearing tree;
And here were forests ancient as the hills,
     Enfolding sunny spots of greenery.....

It was a miracle of rare device,
A sunny pleasure-dome with caves of ice!



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