 So haggard and so woe-begone? The squirrel's granary is full, And the harvest's done. 1 see a lily on thy brow With anguish moist and fever dew, And on thy cheeks a fading rose Fast withereth too.  Tait's Edinburgh Magazine - Page 403edited by - 1857Full view - About this book
 | John Barnard - 1987 - 192 pages
...fulfilment, and is as firmly excluded from the knight's experience as he is from ours. 1 O what can ai! thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering? The sedge has withered from the lake, And no birds sing. 92 2 O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, So haggard and so woe-begone? The squirrel's... | |
 | Bill Moore - 1987 - 180 pages
...Proputty, proputty, proputty — that's what I 'ears 'em saay. O what can all thee, knight at arms, Alone and palely loitering? The sedge has withered from the lake, And no birds sing. JOHN KEATS It has been suggested that these are among the saddest lines in English poetry.... | |
 | Dermot McCarthy - 1991 - 344 pages
...yet"; but line 3 is an explicit reference to the first stanza of Keats's "La Belle Dame Sans Merci": O, what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering? The sedge has wither'd from the lake, And no birds sing. Fear of war, emotional deprivation, spiritual isolation... | |
 | John D. Teasdale, Philip J. Barnard - 1993 - 308 pages
...used to answer the question from such an immediate sense of TABLE 6.1 Poetry as Implicational Meaning '0 what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering? The sedge has wither'd from the lake, And no birds sing.' 'What is the matter, armed old-fashioned soldier, Standing... | |
 | John Foster, Gordon Dennis - 1995 - 136 pages
...Belle Dame sans Merci', means 'The beautiful lady without pity'. «44 La 'Belle 'Dome &an& Merd 'O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely...loitering? The sedge has withered from the lake, And no birds sing. 'O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, So haggard and so woe-begone? The squirrel's granary... | |
 | Albert Cook - 1995 - 364 pages
...love of an earthly knight for an unearthly woman in a setting of correspondent withering in nature: O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely...loitering? The sedge has withered from the lake, And no birds sing. This poem has much in common with a traditional ballad, "The Unquiet Grave," though that... | |
 | John Keats, Robert Gittings - 1995 - 324 pages
...flower traditionally associated with purity. 1 3 meads - meadows. 1 8 fragrant zone - perfumed belt. i 0 WHAT can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering? The sedge has wither'd from the lake, And no birds sing. n 5 O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, So haggard and... | |
 | Carl R. Woodring, James Shapiro - 1995 - 936 pages
...from a garden-croft; And gathering swallows twitter in the skies. LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI A BALLAD O, what can ail thee, knight-at-arms. Alone and palely loitering? The sedge has wither'd from the lake, And no birds sing. O, what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, So haggard and so... | |
 | Paul M. Salkovskis - 1997 - 580 pages
...total effect of the prose version is quite different! TABLE 2.1. Poetry as Implicational Meaning "O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms, Alone and palely loitering? The sedge has wither'd from the lake, And no birds sing." "What is the matter, armed old-fashioned soldier, standing... | |
 | Gordon R. Dickson - 1996 - 356 pages
...memories came a piece of a poem to fit itself to the moment. . . . "O what can ail thee , knight at arms Alone and palely loitering? The sedge has withered from the lake , And no birds sing! ..." It was the first verse of the original version of "La Belle Dame sans Merci" — "The... | |
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