| Robert Keith Lapp - Biography & Autobiography - 1999 - 224 pages
...England. It is not a poem, but a musical composition. "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." We could repeat these lines to ourselves not the less often for not knowing the meaning of them. (19:... | |
| Jeffrey Wainwright - Literary Criticism - 2004 - 248 pages
...it changes once more with another memorable image: 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. With the dulcet connotations of the instrument the lines speak of a wondrous softness and ease. Now... | |
| William Hazlitt - Literary Collections - 2007 - 1143 pages
...most irritable of critics to a state of inaction. 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 such a deep delight 'twould win That with music... | |
| 246 pages
...caves of ice! SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE and T. HOOD 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 such a deep delight 'twould win me, That with music... | |
| 284 pages
...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 such a deep delight 'twould win me That with music... | |
| 196 pages
...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 such a deep delight 'twould win me That with music... | |
| University of Bombay - 1906 - 340 pages
...within, around, Deep sacristy and altar's pale j (i) 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. (c) Chillón ! thy prison is a holy place And thy sad floor an altar, (d) I made a garland for her... | |
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