La Belle Dame Sans Merci

  John William Waterhouse

British, 1849 – 1917

Date: 1893

This painting is based on La Belle Dame Sans Merci by John Keats.

It illustrates the lines:

 

She took me to her elfin grot,
And there she gaz'd and sighed deep,
And there I shut her wild sad eyes -
So kiss'd to sleep.