The most famous fragment in English poetry. Read it for sound first, and notice how the rhyme scheme changes the moment the poem turns from the palace to the poet himself.
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea.
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In Xanadu, Kubla Khan ordered a magnificent pleasure palace built, where the sacred river Alph ran through caves too vast for any person to measure, down to a sea that never sees the sun.
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.
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Once, in a vision, I saw a girl with a stringed instrument. She was an Abyssinian maid, playing her dulcimer and singing about Mount Abora.
That's the whole thing.
Read it again slowly — it gets better the second time.