Poetic & Artistic Inspiration

The Lady of Shalott

John William Waterhouse, 1888

"On either side the river lie 


Long fields of barley and of rye, 


That clothe the wold and meet the sky; 


And thro' the field the road runs by


To many-tower'd Camelot;


And up and down the people go,


Gazing where the lilies blow 


Round an island there below, 


The island of Shalott."

from "The Lady of Shalott"by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, 1842