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

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