La Belle Dame sans Merci

La Belle Dame sans Merci Glossary

La Belle Dame

French for "the beautiful woman"

Ail

to trouble someone

Loitering

Waiting or wandering about vaguely without any definite purpose

Sedge

A kind of grass with triangular stems

Withered

Dried, used-up

Haggard

Exhausted, fatigued

Woe-begone

dejected, miserable, gloomy

Granary

A storehouse for grains

Anguish

torment; severe psychic or physical pain causing misery

Moist

wet, damp

Mead

meadow

Steed

horse

Manna-dew

the celestial food the Israelites were provided with by God, during their wanderings in the desert

Elfin

elf-like

Grot

a small cave

Lull

to cause to fall asleep

Betide

to happen