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