NCERT Book Class 12 English Poetry Kubla Khan

Kubla Khan

Or

A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment

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.

But oh! that deep romantic chasm which slanted

                                                     Down the green hill athwart a cedarn cover!

                                                     A savage place! as holy and enchanted

                                                     As e’er beneath a waning moon was haunted

                                                     By woman wailing for her demon-lover!

And from this chasm, with ceaseless turmoil seething,

As if this earth in fast thick pants were breathing,

A mighty fountain momently was forced;

Amid whose swift half-intermitted burst

                                                    Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,

                                                    Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail:

                                                    And ’mid these dancing rocks at once and ever

                                                    It flung up momently the sacred river.

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