“He play'd an ancient ditty long since mute,
In Provence call'd "La belle dame sans mercy."”
John Keats The Eve of St. Agnes
Stanza 33
Poems (1820), The Eve of St. Agnes
“I saw pale kings and princes too,
Pale warriors, death-pale were they all;
They cried- "La Belle Dame sans Merci
Hath thee in thrall!"”
— John Keats, book La Belle Dame sans Merci
Stanza X
La Belle Dame sans Merci (1819)
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