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"La Belle Dame sans Merci" ("The Beautiful Lady without Mercy") is a ballad produced by the English poet John Keats in 1819. The title was derived from the title of a 15th-century poem by Alain Chartier called La Belle Dame sans Mercy. [1] Considered an English classic, the poem is an example of Keats' poetic preoccupation with love and death. [2]
"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 ...
In English poetry, syllables are usually categorized as being either stressed or unstressed, rather than long or short, and the unambiguous molossus rarely appears, as it is too easily interpreted as two feet (and thus a metrical fault) or as having at least one destressed syllable.
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 ...
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.
Priest won the BSFA award for short fiction in 1979 for the short story "Palely Loitering", [15] and was nominated for Hugo Awards in the categories of Best Novel, Best Novella, Best Novelette, and Best Non-Fiction Book (this last for The Book on the Edge of Forever (also known as Last Deadloss Visions), an exploration of the unpublished Last ...
When I Have Fears" is an Elizabethan sonnet by the English Romantic poet John Keats. The 14-line poem is written in iambic pentameter and consists of three quatrains and a couplet . Keats wrote the poem between 22 and 31 January 1818 . [ 1 ]