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78°12′S 163°45′E / 78.200°S 163.750°E / -78.200; 163.750 (Alph River) Alph River (78.2°S 163.75°E) is a small river, flowing in summertime, on the northern side of Koettlitz Glacier, Scott Coast, Antarctica. It rises from Koettlitz ice at the upper end of Pyramid Trough and from south to north includes Pyramid Ponds ...
Kubla Khan: or A Vision in a Dream (/ ˌkʊblə ˈkɑːn /) is a poem written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816. It is sometimes given the subtitles "A Vision in a Dream" and "A Fragment." According to Coleridge's preface to Kubla Khan, the poem was composed one night after he experienced an opium -influenced ...
Stately Pleasure Dome is the unofficial name for the prominent south-southwestern portion of Polly Dome, a granite dome on the northwest side of Tenaya Lake and Tioga Road in the Yosemite high country. Stately Pleasure Dome consists of glaciated and exfoliated granite rock that rises steeply 900 feet (270 m) from the lake shore; the very steep ...
Alph. Alph may refer to: Alpheus River, a river on the Peloponnese. Alph River, a river in Antarctica. Alph Lake, a lake in Antarctica. Alph, a fictional river in the poem Kubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Alph, a character from Luminous Arc. Alph, a character from the game Pikmin 3.
Alph River: name is from the opening passage in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's poem, Kubla Khan [1] Onyx River: so named because of the relationship of the 15th, 14th, 25th and 24th letters of the alphabet in Onyx [2] [clarification needed]
The river disappears several times into the limestone Arcadian mountains and reemerges after flowing some distance underground. [26] This is the origin of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's reference to the river, by the name Alph, in his poem Kubla Khan , although he transferred the location of the river to Kublai Khan's Mongolia, "where Alph ...
Xanadu: The Marco Polo Musical is an original musical written and produced in 1953 by Seventh Army Special Services in Germany, the first of the numerous stage musicals, film musicals and songs inspired in part by the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem Kubla Khan with its opening lines: In Xanadu did Kubla Khan. A stately pleasure-dome decree.
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.