The New Look

So, whadda y'all think of the new look?

I finally got everything categorized & hopefully my blogrolls are all set up now. (Please let me know if they are initially hidden or expanded.)

Mom doesn't like the knight in the picture up top. She says he looks like he's on something. That painting is based on a Keats poem.

La Belle Dame Sans Merci.

O what can ail thee, Knight at arms,
Alone and palely loitering?
The sedge is withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.

O what can ail thee, Knight at arms,
So haggard and so woebegone
The squirrel's granary is full,
And the harvest's done.

I see a lily on thy brow
With anguish moist and fever dew,
And on thy cheek a fading rose
Fast withereth too.

I met a lady in the meads,
Full beautiful, a faery's child:
Her hair was long, her foot was light,
And her eyes were wild.

I made a Garland for her head,
And bracelets too, and fragrant Zone;
She looked at me as she did love
And made sweet moan.

I set her on my pacing steed,
And nothing else saw all day long;
For sidelong would she bend, and sing
A faery's song.

She found me roots of relish sweet,
And honey wild, and manna dew,
And sure in language strange she said,
"I love thee true!"

She took me to her elfin grot,
And there she gazed and sighed full sore,
And there I shut her wild wild eyes--
With kisses four.

And there she lulled me asleep,
And there I dreamed, ah! woe betide!
The latest dream I ever dreamed
On the cold hill side.

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!"

I saw their starved lips in the gloam,
With horrid warning gaped wide,
And I awoke and found me here,
On the cold hill side.

And that is why I sojourn here,
Alone and palely loitering,
Though the sedge is withered from the lake,
And no birds sing.

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I really wanted a painting from John William Waterhouse, but most of his are taller than wide & wouldn't work well with the header. My favourites are The Lady of Shalott, Ophelia, Circe Invidiosa & Boreas.