O, what can ail thee, knight at arms, 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?

And so live ever-or else swoon to death. This poem is in the public domain. Keats expresses his longing for eternal love and stability, wishing to be unchanging like the stars in the sky while ...

Keats was in love and he knew he was dying. I think that must've made his experience of life more intense and his poetry more passionate. I'm sure in this poem, the lover knows he can't really ...

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