"Which poem by Keats opens with the words ""O what can all thee, knight-at-arms, alone and palely loitering""?"
Flora Kidd Do Sing" (1970) against the theme of John Keats' poem "La Belle Dame sans Merci" ("The Beautiful Lady without Pity"). Although "La Belle Dame sans Merci" opens with a description of the knight in a barren landscape, "haggard" and "woe-begone", it is the heroine Lindsay in "When Birds Do Sing" (1970) who shares such sentiment. Unlike the conclusion of the first stanza of Keats' poem, Flora Kidd's story has a happy ending where birds do sing. O what can ail thee, knight at arms, Alone and palely loitering? The sedge has wither'd from the lake, And no birds sing. "My
Fare Thee Well (poem) Fare Thee Well (poem) "Fare Thee Well" is an 1816 poem by George Gordon Byron, 6th Baron Byron, known as Lord Byron. Lord Byron married and fathered a child with Annabella Milbanke in 1815, but they separated in 1816. In March of that year, Byron composed "Fare Thee Well" and enclosed a note that said, "Dearest Bell --- I send you the first verses that ever I attempted to write upon you, and perhaps the last that I may ever write at all." In April he signed a Deed of Separation and added the following notation . . . Byron