La Belle Dame Sans Merci A Ballad
La Belle Dame Sans Merci A Ballad
La Belle Dame Sans Merci A Ballad
BY JOH N KE AT S
O what can ail thee, knight-at-arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge has withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.
Notes:
POL participants and judges:
in this poem's third-to-last stanza, recitations that
include “Hath thee in thrall!” or “Thee hath in thrall!” are both
acceptable.
Source: Selected Poems (Penguin Classics, 1988)