Round 8: Tossup 9

A Samuel Purchas travelogue inspired this poem’s opening lines. The speaker of this poem imagines people crying “Beware! Beware!” due to his “flashing eyes [and] flowing hair” since he “has drunk the milk of paradise.” This poem’s final stanza describes a dream containing “a damsel with a dulcimer (10[1])... singing (10[1])of Mount Abora.” (10[2])This poem was left unfinished because the interruption of a “person from Porlock” (10[1])caused the author to forget the opium dream that inspired it. (10[1])In this poem, the sacred (10[1])river Alph runs through the “stately pleasure (-5[1])dome” in the capital (10[2])of Xanadu. For 10 points, name this Samuel Taylor (10[1])Coleridge poem titled for a Mongol Emperor. (10[1])■END■

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