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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 is full, And the harvest’s done. I see a lily on thy brow, With anguish moist and fever-dew, And on thy cheeks a fading rose Fast withereth too. I met a lady in the meads,
"An Infinite Summer" (1976) "Whores" (1978) "Palely Loitering" (1979) "The Negation" (1978) "The Watched" (1978) The material in the collection may be divided into two types: the first, namely "An Infinite Summer" and "Palely Loitering" are more straightforward works of science fiction involving time travel, while the other three are early parts of Priest's "Dream Archipelago" sequence ...
A molossus (/ m ə ˈ l ɒ s ə s /) is a metrical foot used in Greek and Latin poetry.It consists of three long syllables. [1] Examples of Latin words constituting molossi are audiri, cantabant, virtutem.
Hardy's luck has improved this time around. His Falcon has new seats, he is off the smokes, and his terrace has been brightened up with a chaste Baltic lodger. Hardy, though, still ends up alone and palely loitering, battered over the head by a variety of blunt instruments handled by an equally odious variety of thugs...
Alone and palely loitering; Washington Irving , " The Legend of Sleepy Hollow " (1820): "In this by-place of nature there abode, in a remote period of American history, that is to say, some thirty years since, a worthy wight of the name of Ichabod Crane, who sojourned, or, as he expressed it, "tarried," in Sleepy Hollow, for the purpose of ...
The Midnight poem is a fragment of Greek lyric poetry preserved by the Alexandrian grammarian Hephaestion. [1] It is possibly by the archaic Greek poet Sappho, and is fragment 168 B in Eva-Maria Voigt's edition of her works.
Loitering is the act of standing or waiting around idly without apparent purpose in some public places. [ 1 ] While the laws regarding loitering have been challenged and changed over time, loitering of suspect people can be illegal in some jurisdictions and some specific circumstances.
Fair Phyllis (also Fair Phyllis I saw, Fair Phyllis I saw sitting all alone) is an English madrigal by John Farmer. The music is polyphonic and was published in 1599. The madrigal contains four voices and uses occasional imitation. It also alternates between triple and duple beat subdivisions of the beat in different parts of the work.