Lady, for indeedI loved you and I deemed you beautiful,I cannot brook to see your beauty marredThrough evil spite: and if ye love me not,I cannot bear to dream you so forsworn:I had liefer ye were worthy of my love,Than to be loved again of you — farewell;And though ye kill my hope, not yet my love,Vex not yourself: ye will not see me more.
- Alfred Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King: Pelleas and Etarre
(Image: ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ by Sir Frank Dicksee)

Lady, for indeed
I loved you and I deemed you beautiful,
I cannot brook to see your beauty marred
Through evil spite: and if ye love me not,
I cannot bear to dream you so forsworn:
I had liefer ye were worthy of my love,
Than to be loved again of you — farewell;
And though ye kill my hope, not yet my love,
Vex not yourself: ye will not see me more.

- Alfred Lord Tennyson, Idylls of the King: Pelleas and Etarre

(Image: ‘La Belle Dame Sans Merci’ by Sir Frank Dicksee)

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    officially need to read this.
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    The Image is “La Belle Dame Sans Merci”, Thus, Keat’s “La Belle Dame Sans Merci” MUST be recited: (btw, it’s MY FAVORITE...
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    I finally know the name of the painting. That’s been hung up in my mom’s room forever.
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    this is hung up in my hallway
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