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Ann D. Alexander

Coat of Arms

They Rode All Night to Their Own Castle

Balin Took up the Head of the Lady

The Combat with Puss

A Contemporary Caricature of Henry Irving

The Cow Seized the Thistle, and Tom Thumb As Well

Edward Burne-Jones

Edward Burne-Jones Reading

Ellen Terry in King Arthur

The End

From The Funeral March

From The May Song

Gumbo the Giant Takes a Pill

Henry Irving

The History of that Holy Disciple Joseph of Arimathea: Image of Joseph

I am Ederyn, come to keep the King's tryst. (Frontispiece)

In the Claws of the Raven

J. Comyns Carr's King Arthur

King Arthur Sends A Doctor to Tom

The King's Cook Surprised

The Kitten Takes Tom Thumb for a Mouse

The Knights of King Arthur: How to Begin and What to Do

The Lion Sprang upon the Giant

The Little Stranger's Arrival

The Maid Put Tom Thumb in a Mouse-Trap for Safety

Merlin and Vivien Project Title

One Day a Great Cat Came Rushing at Tom Thumb

The Queen Gets Jealous and Wants Tom Thumb Killed

The Queens of Avalon Image 1: Court Victoria, Roxbury, Mass.

The Queens of Avalon Image 2: A Fine Court Group: Court Camelot Marlboro Mass.

The Queens of Avalon Image 3: Another Fine Court Group

The Queens of Avalon Image 4: Members of Court Astolat, Lynn, Mass.

Sir Arthur Sullivan

Sir Dinadan

The Tiny Courtier

Title Page for the Story of Tom Thumb

Title Page of Tom Thumb

Tom Dancing on the Queen's Hand

Tom Thumb Mounts a Butterfly, and Hopes to Get Away

Tom Thumb Riding

Tom Thumbes Father

Tom Thumbes Mother

Tom Thumb's Adventures

A vision to King Arthur came, warning him not to fight; Gawaine, surrounded by a troop of ladies fair and bright

Clara E. Atwood

What wouldst thou, Hermit?

John H. Bacon (1865 - 1914)

The Passing of Arthur

George Foster Barnes

Aurelia in the Garden

He Led His Mounted Lances and Battle-Axes, in a Spirited Dash at Eschwine

His Right Wheel Struck and Shattered

She Drew Near Doubtfully

They Bore Tokens with them, and Charms of Mighty Efficiency

They Went in Ribbon-like Order

Herbert Rose Barraud (1844/5-1896)

Ellen Terry

Dan Beard (1850 - 1941)

The Abbot's Solemn Procession

After Prayers We Had Dinner

After the Explosion

All Men Are Born Free and Equal

And So We Started

And were Soon as Sociable as Old Acquaintances

Another Miracle

Armor is heavy, yet it is a proud burden, and a man standeth straight in it

At the Twelfth Repetition they Fell Apart in Chunks

Audi Alteram

A Band of Slaves

Barber to H. M., The King

Bgwjjilligkkk!!

The Boys Helped Me, or I Never Could Have Got In (Initial Letter. Chapter XI)

Brer Merlin Steals the Lariat

Brother to Dirt Like This?

Burial of a Freeman

By a Sarcasm of Law and Phrase They Were Freemen

Catcher of the Ulster Nine

Charge of the 500 Knights

Children of Monarchy by the Grace of God and the Established Church

A Child's Affair for Simpleness

The Church Is Master Now

The Church Puts Its Foot in It

The Church, the King, the Nobleman, and the Freeman

Deciding an Argument

Decorations of Sixth Century Aristocracy

Defend Thee, Lord!--Peril of Life is Toward!

Delirium, of Course, But SO Real!

Detailed an Intelligent Priest, and Ordered Him to Report it

Discrepancy in Noses Makes No Difference

The Earth Belongs to the People

Effect of the Pipe on Sandy

Effect of the Pipe on the Freemen

Effect of the Sun on the Iron Clothes

The End [by Dan Beard]

Evolution

The False Prophet Going to Meet the King

The Feast

The Fire

The Flies Buzzed and Bit Unmolested

For I Was Afraid of the Church

A Foundling

Go It, Slim Jim!

Go 'Long, I said; You Ain't More Than a Paragraph

Great Scott, But There Was a Sensation

Great Scott, Can't You Understand a Little Thing Like That?

Hands Off! My Person Is Sacred

Hast Seen Sir Launcelot About?

He Gave Me a Sudden Look That Bit Right Through Into My Marrow

He Unlimbered his Tongue and Cursed Like a Bishop

He Was a Man

He Was Frighted Even to the Marrow

He was Great Now

He was Hungry for a Fight

The Head of the Cavalcade Swept Forward

Hello-Central!

High Church

How Old are You, Sandy?

I Caught a Picture That Will Not Go From Me

I Could Imagine the Baby Goo-gooing

I Saw He Meant Business

Inherited Ideas Are a Curious Thing

Initial Letter (A Word of Explanation)

Initial Letter (Chapter I)

Initial Letter (Chapter II)

Initial Letter (Chapter III)

Initial Letter (Chapter IV)

Initial Letter (Chapter IX)

Initial Letter (Chapter V)

Initial Letter (Chapter VI)

Initial Letter (Chapter VII)

Initial Letter (Chapter VIII)

Initial Letter (Chapter X)

Initial Letter (Chapter XII)

Initial Letter (Chapter XIII)

Initial Letter (Chapter XIV)

Initial Letter (Chapter XIX)

Initial Letter (Chapter XL)

Initial Letter (Chapter XLI)

Initial Letter (Chapter XLII)

Initial Letter (Chapter XLIII)

Initial Letter (Chapter XLIV)

Initial Letter (Chapter XV)

Initial Letter (Chapter XVI)

Initial Letter (Chapter XVII)

Initial Letter (Chapter XVIII)

Initial Letter (Chapter XX)

Initial Letter (Chapter XXI)

Initial Letter (Chapter XXII)

Initial Letter (Chapter XXIII)

Initial Letter (Chapter XXIV)

Initial Letter (Chapter XXIX)

Initial Letter (Chapter XXV)

Initial Letter (Chapter XXVI)

Initial Letter (Chapter XXVII)

Initial Letter (Chapter XXVIII)

Initial Letter (Chapter XXX)

Initial Letter (Chapter XXXI)

Initial Letter (Chapter XXXII)

Initial Letter (Chapter XXXIII)

Initial Letter (Chapter XXXIV)

Initial Letter (Chapter XXXIX)

Initial Letter (Chapter XXXV)

Initial Letter (Chapter XXXVI)

Initial Letter (Chapter XXXVII)

It Had in it a Sample of About All the Upper Occupations and Professions.

It Lay There All Battered to a Pulp

It Was a Noble Effect

It was Delicious to See a Newspaper Again

It Was the Largest Castle We Had Seen

The Journey

The King [by Dan Beard]

King Uriens

Knights Practicing on the Quiet

Latest Eruption, Only Two Cents

Launcelot Swept In

Look Out and Hold on Tight!

Marhaus, Son of the King of Ireland, From an Effigy Found in the Castle

Merely a Great Big Village

Merlin [by Dan Beard]

A Middy from my Naval Academy

Mrs. Le Fay

My Lord, the Earl Grip

The Newsboy

Next!

The Nineteenth Century Booming Under Its Very Nose

Non-Indexed Image, Page 432

Not a Word of it Could these Catfish Make Head or Tail of

Oh, Beware! These are Awful Words!

On the Tramp

One of the 52

One of the People

The Orator

Original Agony

Overbalanced

The Practical Joker's Joke

Presently We Struck an Incident

Pursuit

Queen Guenever Was as Naïvely Interested as the Rest

The Queen's Own

Rah for Protection!

The Rest of the Tale Is Just War, Pure and Simple

The Reverent and Awe-Stricken Multitudes

The Round Table [by Dan Beard]

A Sample of One Sort of London Society

Sandy

Sandy and the Boss at the Second Table

Sandy Rode by on a Mule

Sandy was Worn Out with Nursing

Sandy with Royalty

She Continued to Fetch and Pour Until I Was Well Soaked

Sing, Dance, Carouse Every Night

Sir Arthur Took It up by the Handles

Sir Boss

Sir Cote Male Taile

Sir Galahad Takes a Header

Sir Gawaine and Sir Uwaine

Sir Mordred [by Dan Beard]

Sir Sagramour le Desirous

Sister, Your Blind is Disarranged

The Slave Driver

Slaves Warming Themselves

Slim Jim

Smothered with Blessings

Snuffing the Candle

So We Took a Man-of-war

Solid Comfort

Some Manhood Even in a King

Some of the Boys Going a Grailing

The Spirit of the Church

The Spirit that Goeth with Burdens that Have not Honor

Starving, Eh? Why Don't you Grow a Nose Like Mine?

The Stranger's Story

Streets of London

The Sun Struck the Sea of Armor and Set It All on Fire

Supreme Head of the Church and Some Other Heads

Tail-Piece (A Word of Explanation) [by Dan Beard]

Tail-Piece (Chapter XLIV) [by Dan Beard]

The Tale of the Lost Land

That Fellow on the Pillar, Standing Rigid

That Old Tower Leaped into the Sky in Chunks

That Was the Church

That Will Do, I Said, I Reckon You Are a Patient.

Then Sir Marhaus Ran to the Duke, and Smote Him with His Spear

There Are Ways to Persuade Him to Abandon It

There Was No Soap, No Matches, No Looking-Glass

They Came in a Body, They Came With a Whirr

They Have a Right to Their View. I Only Stand to This

They Thought I Was One of Those Fire Belching Dragons

This Horrible Sky-Towering Monster

This Would Undermine the Church

The Three Brothers, as Described by Sandy

The Three Maids

Three Years After

To Subtract the Nation and Leave Behind Some Dregs

To the Gentleman He was Abject

Toward the Monk the Coal Burner was Deeply Reverent

Traitor, Now Is Thy Death Day Come

Transformation

The Tree and the Fruit

A Tree is Known by its Fruits

The Troublesomest Old Sow of the Lot

Two of a Kind

Under the Curse of Rome

Varlet, Serve to Me What Cheer ye Have

Walking on Air, She was So Proud

We Constituted the Rear of his Procession

We Got the Hogs Home

We Were Challenged by the Warders, and After Parley Admitted

A West Pointer

What Is It You Call it? Chuckleheads

When a Slave Passed He Couldn't Even See Him

Where Launcelot Is, She Noteth Not the Going Forth of the King

Where Was My Great Commerce?

Who Fails Shall Sup in Hell To-night

Why do you Not Warn Me To Cease?

Why, They Were Nothing but Rabbits!

A Yard of Snowy Church-warden

Ye Iron Dude

Yes, Sire, That Is About It, I Am Afraid

Aubrey Beardsley (1872 - 1898)

The Achieving of the Sangreal

Arthur and the Strange Mantle

La Beale Isoud at Joyous Gard

How a Devil in Woman's Likeness Would Have Tempted Sir Bors

How Four Queens Found Launcelot Sleeping

How King Arthur Saw the Questing Beast and Thereof Had Great Marvel

How King Mark and Sir Dinadan Heard Sir Palomides Making Great Sorrow and Mourning for La Beale Isoud

How King Marke Found Sir Tristram

How La Beale Isoud Nursed Sir Tristram

How La Beale Isoud Wrote to Sir Tristram

How Morgan le Fay Gave a Shield to Sir Tristram

How Queen Guenever Made Her a Nun

How Queen Guenever Rode on Maying

How Sir Bedivere Cast the Sword Excalibur into the Water

How Sir Launcelot Was Known by Dame Elaine

How Sir Tristram Drank of the Love Drink

The Lady of the Lake Telleth Arthur of the Sword Excalibur

Merlin

Merlin and Nimue

Merlin Taketh the Child Arthur into His Keeping

Sir Launcelot and the Witch Hellawes

E. B. Bensell (1842 - 1894)

Arthur Meets the Loathly Lady

The Loathly Lady Becomes Beautiful

Hammatt Billings (1818 - 1874)

Dagonet Dancing Before Tristram

Frontispiece - Launcelot at the Eagle's Nest

Launcelot Finds Maiden Babe in Eagle's Nest

Look, her hand is red!

The Ruby Gems, Won by Tristram as a Tourney-prize

Tristram Knelt Before Isolt

Tristram Wins the Tournament

Jemima Blackburn (1823 - 1909)

Here, mother, in the red cow's mouth

How befell this woeful sight?

How Merlin Was Outwitted by the Lady Viviana

How Sir Thomas Thumb Was Carried to Fairy Land

How the Wizard Merlin Came to the House of Owen

How Tom Thumb Became Frolicsome and Tricksy

It was he who kept every wasp, spider, or chafer, from entering the palace to torment such ladies of Queen Guenever

Never you fear, father; I will sit in the horse's ear and tell him which way to go.

Of Tom Thumb's First Appearing Before the Good King Arthur

Quickly springing on her back, he thought to make her rise into the air

She let her strange mouthful fall on the grass, where his mother caught him

Sir, foul as I am, I may help thee in thy need.

Title Page 1 for The History of the Life and Death of the Good Knight Sir Thomas Thumb

Title Page 2 for The History of the Life and Death of the Good Knight Sir Thomas Thumb

The venomous bite of the spider had shed poison into his veins

Elaine Sews a Cover for Lancelot's Shield

Geraint and Enid with King Arthur

Guinevere at the Nunnery at Almesbury

Guinevere's Lady Insulted by Edyrn's Dwarf

King Arthur Reads Elaine's Letter

The Lady of Shalott

The Lily Maid

Sir Lancelot

Eleanor Fortescue Brickdale (1872 - 1945)

Before the Coming of the Sinful Queen

Elaine and Lancelot

Elaine Being Carried to the Barge

Elaine Sewing a Cover for Lancelot's Shield

Elaine with Lancelot's Shield

Enid

Enid and Geraint

Enid, Guinevere, and Vivien

Geraint in Rusty Armor

Geraint Wounded

Guinevere in the Golden Days

Guinevere in the Nunnery

The Journey of Enid and Geraint

Lancelot

Lancelot and Guinevere

Lancelot Musing on Elaine's Death

Merlin

Merlin and Vivien

Merlin Finds the Baby Arthur

Vivien

The Wife of the Eastern Potentate

Ian Brown (b. 1962)

Arthur Triumphant

Camelot

Caval

The Dream of Rhonabwy

The Green Knight

The Invisible Knight

King Arthur

The Knight of the Summer's Day

The Knight with Two Swords

Percival Sets Out for King Arthur's Court

The Questing Beast

The Red Dragon and the White Dragon

Single Combat

Sir Lancelot

Sir Lancelot and the Dragon from the Tomb

Sir Owein, the Knight of the Lion

Tristan's Leap

Frances Brundage (1854 - 1937)

The Lady of Shalott

Edward Coley Burne-Jones (1833 - June 16, 1898)

Agayn the knyght this olde wyf gan ryse, And seyde: Sire knyght, heerforth ne lith no wey...

For, by my trouthe, I wol be to yow bothe, This is to seyn, ye, bothe fair and good.

The Sleep of King Arthur in Avalon

Thou art so loothly, and so oold also, And therto comen of so lough a kynde...

Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 - 1879)

Alfred Lord Tennyson

The Corpse of Elaine in the Palace of King Arthur

Elaine in the Barge

Elaine the Lily Maid of Astolat

Enid

Gareth and Lynette

Girl Praying

Hypatia

Julia Margaret Cameron

Kalutara Peasants

King Arthur

King Arthur Wounded Lying in the Barge

The Little Novice and the Queen

The Parting of Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere

Il Penseroso

Sir Galahad and the Nun

A Study of a Holy Family

Vivien and Merlin

Vivien and Merlin

Vivien Enchants Merlin

The Whisper of the Muse

Gareth and Queen Bellicent

W. Otway Cannell (1883 - 1969)

King Arthur and Merlin at the Lake

King Arthur and the Giant of Mont-Saint-Michel

Merlin and Vivien

Tristrem and Ysonde

Kristi Janelle Castleberry

Caerleon

Caerleon: Full View

Glastonbury Tor

King Arthur's Tomb

Wearyall Hill

William Ernest Chapman (1858 - 1947)

The Departure of the Knights [on the Quest for the Grail]

Galahad Meets with His Father

The Golden Girdle

How Balin Smote the Dolorous Stroke that Wounded King Pellam - Chapter Heading

How Sir Galahad Came to the Castle of Maidens - Chapter Heading

How the Old Man Brought Galahad to the Seige Perilous - Chapter Heading

The Marvelous Appearance of the Sangreal at Camelot

Of How Arthur was Chosen King of England - Chapter Heading

Of How the Knights Departed from Camelot - Chapter Heading

Of the Tournament of Farewell - Chapter Heading

Sir Bors Sees the Child Galahad

Sir Galahad Beholds the Sangreal Uncovered

Sir Galahad Overthrows Launcelot and Percivale

The Story of Sir Galahad

Walter Crane (1845 - 1915)

Arthur Draws the Sword from the Stone

Beaumains Wins the Fight at the Ford

The Death of Sir Lancelot

The Death-Journey of the Lily Maid of Astolat

The Fight in the Queen's Ante-Chamber

King Arthur Asks the Lady of the Lake for the Sword Excalibur

Perceval Obtains the Shield of the Beating Heart

Sir Bedevere Casts the Sword Excalibur into the Lake

Sir Galahad is Brought to the Court of King Arthur

Sir Geraint and the Lady Enid in the Deserted Roman Town

Sir Lancelot Forbids Sir Bors to Slay the King

Sir Lancelot in the Chapel Perilous

Sir Owen Greets the Lady of the Fountain

The Witch Gives Advice as to Sir Tristram's Wound

Young Owen Appeals to the King

Young Perceval Questions Sir Owen

Hawes Craven (1837 - 1910)

Act III.

Act III.

Act IV.

Cover Page

The Great Hall, Camelot. Act I.

The Magic Mere. The Prologue

The Passing of Arthur

The Queen's Maying. Act II.

Frances Darlington (1880 - September 5, 1940)

Sir Perceval: The Vision of the Holy Grail

Bertha Corson Day

Wondering and Awe-Struck, Sir Gawain Sank Before the Lady On One Knee

Robert Dighton (1752 - 1814)

Draw, Caitiff, Draw! I Challenge Thee!

See what's in here, the thing Speaks methinks, for it Squeaks & Complains

This is Comfort Indeed!

'Tis for Yseult thy Tristan Bids thee Yield

Arthur Dixon (1872 - 1959)

All the People Marvelled at the Stone

The Clash of Weapons Brought Isolde to the Walls

He Met a Fair Maiden Who Strove to Have the Sword

He Severed the Cords by Which Bragwaine was Bound

He was Mocked and Jeered at by All

The Holy Vessel Appeared in Their Midst

I Ask Your Promise to Release My Father

King Arthur Asks Counsel of Merlin

King Mark and All His Barons Came out to Meet Him

Launcelot Loved Guenevere from the Moment He First Beheld Her

Linet Caught Him by the Arm and Implored Him to Wait

One of the Two Knights Rushed to Encounter Him

The Queen, Seizing His Arm, Pulled the Goblet from His Lips

She Snatched the Empty Sheath from its Place

Sir Launcelot and the Queen Talked Sadly Together

Sir Tristram Gave Her a Ring

The Strangest Beast That Had Ever Been Seen

There Appeared Before Me a Dwarf

There Came an Aged Man... Leading by the Hand the Young New-Made Knight

They Made Good Their Landing

Turn and Flee While There Is Yet Time

Vivien Enclosed Him, Living, Within a Magic Circle

With All Due Rites Sir Palamides Was Baptised

The Youth Pulled it out Easily

Gustave Doré (1832 - 1883)

The Body of Elaine on Its Way to King Arthur's Palace

Cloister Scene

The Dawn of Love

Edyrn with His Lady and Dwarf Journey to Arthur's Court

Elaine on Her Road to the Cave of Lancelot

The Enchanter and His Book

Enid and the Countess

Enid Tends Geraint

The Fairy Circle

The Finding of the Baby Arthur

The Flight of the Boon Companions of Earl Limours

Frontispiece

Geraint and Enid in the Meadow

Geraint and Enid Ride Away

Geraint Charges the Bandits

Geraint Slays Earl Doorm

Guinevere's Flight to Almesbury

King Arthur Discovering the Skeletons of the Brothers

King Arthur Reading the Letter of Elaine

The King's Farewell

The Knights Carouse

The Knights Pursue the Hart with Golden Horns

Lancelot Approaching the Castle of Astolat

Lancelot Bids Adieu to Elaine

Lancelot Relating His Adventures

Merlin Paints the Young Knight's Shield

Merlin Project Introduction Image

The Novice Sings Late, So Late

The Parting of Lancelot and Guinevere

The Remorse of Lancelot

The Sea Battle for a Beautiful Woman

Three Spirits Mad with Joy

Torre and Lavaine Bid Farewell to the Body of Elaine

Vivien and Merlin Disembark

Vivien and Merlin Enter the Woods

Vivien and Merlin Repose

Vivien Encloses Merlin in the Tree

Yniol Shows Prince Geraint His Ruined Castle

Rosina Emmet (1854 - 1948)

Three Kings: A Christmas Legend of Long Ago: Image 1

Three Kings: A Christmas Legend of Long Ago: Image 2

Three Kings: A Christmas Legend of Long Ago: Image 3

Three Kings: A Christmas Legend of Long Ago: Image 4

Three Kings: A Christmas Legend of Long Ago: Image 5

Three Kings: A Christmas Legend of Long Ago: Image 6

Three Kings: A Christmas Legend of Long Ago: Image 7

Three Kings: A Christmas Legend of Long Ago: Image 8

Emrik and Binger

And dances a Galliard on the Queen's hand

And what was painful to Tom Thumb, to others would be sport

At his christening, a fairy did appear

At length he started forth from home

The cow rejoiced to find a meal so succulent

Dismay'd, she placed it in a bag

Headlong in the dish he fell

A hungry cow

In a fish's open mouth alight

In prowess matching all

Instead of gallant roystering, he lay upon his bed

King Arthur and his noble knights, mourned Tom's unhappy fate

Maybe a ploughman's thumb in height

A raven great and strong

Table of Contents

Tom Thumb his troubles soon forgot

Tom Thumb re-appears at Court

With money, much as he could bear, Tom sallied forth

Walter F. Enright

All about him old oaks stood like giant guardians

And across it slowly moved the Holy Grail

Arthur and the Lady of the Lake

Arthur saw Guinevere bending over the wall

Gareth rode at him fiercely

He dismounted and poured water into the fountain

He hardly more than touched the sword

He pushed him until he was but a step from the edge

He struck so fiercely the bottom fell out

King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table

King Arthur raising his hand for silence

King Bors and King Ban

The king touched him lightly with his sword

She stayed near it all day long in the turret

They fought til their breath failed

Sol Eytinge Jr. (1833 - March 26, 1905)

But Deep in His Soul the Sign He Wore, the Badge of Suffering and the Poor

The Castle Gate Stands Open Now

Down Swept the Chill from the Mountain Peak

The Flush of Life May Well be Seen

Here on the Rushes Will I Sleep

Lo, It Is I; Be Not Afraid!

Over His Keys, the Musing Organist...

Sir Launfal Flashed Forth in His Unscarred Mail

Within the Hall Are Song and Laughter

Sir W. Russell Flint (1880 - 1969)

Ah, Sir Bors, gentle knight have mercy on us all

And anon he rased off his helm, and smote his neck in sunder

And then they put on their helms and departed, and recommended them all wholly unto the queen; and there was weeping and great sorrow

And therewith on his hands and on his knees he went so nigh that he touched the holy vessel

As she was at the fire to take her execution, young Tristram kneeled afore King Meliodas, and besought him to give him a boon

'As soon as I wist that this adventure was ordained me I clipped off my hair, and made this girdle in the name of God'

But ye shall abide, and I shall throw such an enchantment upon him that he shall not awake within the space of an hour; and so she did

He gave him such a buffet upon the helm with his sword that King Arthur had no power to keep his saddle

How Sir Launcelot and his kinsmen rescued the queen from the fire

Madam, said Sir Tristram, this is a fair shield and a mighty

Morgan le Fay was put to school in a nunnery, and there she learned so much that she was a great clerk of necromancy

'My knights, and my servants, and my true children, which be come out of deadly life into spiritual life, I will now no longer hide me from you'

She was a great huntress and daily she used to hunt, and ever she bare her bow with her

Sir Launcelot beheld the young squire and saw him seemly and demure as a dove, with all manner of good features, that he weened of his age never to have seen so fair a man of form

Then Sir Launcelot saw her visage, but he wept not greatly, but sighed

Then the king was sworn upon the four Evangelists

Then the Queen Guenever made great sorrow for the departing of her lord and other

Then was she girt with a noble sword whereof the king had marvel

There he blew three deadly motes, and there came two damosels and armed him lightly

Therefore thee behoveth now to choose one of us four

They fought for the love of one lady, and ever she lay on the walls and beheld them

They went into their country of Benoye, and lived there in great joy

This espied King Mark, how she kneeled down and said: 'Sweet Lord Jesu, have mercy upon me, for I may not live after the death of Sir Tristram de Liones'

When she saw he would not abide, she prayed unto God to send him as much need of help as she had, and that he might feel it or he died

The Court Jester (Sir Dagonet)

H. J. Ford (1860 - 1941)

The Archers Threaten Lancelot

Arthur and Guenevere Kiss Before All the People

Arthur and the Questing Beast

The Black Barget

The Damsel Warns Sir Balin

The Death of Balin and Balan

Elaine Ties Her Sleeve Round Sir Lancelot's Helmet

Excalibur Returns to the Mere

Gareth and Linet

Guenevere Sends her Page to Lancelot for Help

How Arthur Drew the Sword

How Sir Bors Was Saved from Killing His Brother

The Lady of Lyonesse Sees Sir Gareth

Lancelot and the Dwarf

Lancelot Comes Out of Guenevere's Room

Linet and the Black Knight

Merlin and Vivien

Morgan Le Fay Casts Away the Scabbard

Sir Galahad Opens the Tomb

Sir Mador Accuses Guenevere

Sir Mordred

Sir Percivale Slays the Serpent

F. A. Fraser (1846 - 1924)

The Battle with Sir Mordred

The Damsels at the Fountain

The Holy Vessel of the Sangreal

How Arthur Drew Forth the Sword

How Merlin in Disguise Visited the King

How the Tourney Had Like to End in Bloodshed

King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table - Frontispiece

King Arthur Departs with the Three Queens

The King at the Fountain

King Mark Pursued by Dagonet

King Mark Stabs Sir Baudwin

King Pellinore and the Damsel at the Well

The Lady Isolde Ministers to Sir Tramtrist

The Maid of Astolat

The Queen Discovers who Slew her Brother

The Quest of the White Hart

The Railing Damsel

Sir Brandiles, Sir Persant, Sir Ironside, and Sir Pelleas

Sir Dinadan Overtakes Sir Tristram

Sir Galahad

Sir Galahad on his Quest

Sir Galahad Receives his Father's Blessing

Sir Galahad Seeks Counsel of God

Sir Garish of the Mount

Sir Gringamore Rides Away with the Dwarf

Sir Launcelot and Sir Palamides

Sir Launcelot du Lake

Sir Launcelot Receiveth the Pope's Letters

Sir Launcelot to the Rescue of the Queen

Sir Launcelot's Last Sight of Queen Guenever

Sir Melias Finds a Crown in the Forest

Sir Palamides Beats Down Sir Tristram

Sir Palamides Delivers Dame Bragwaine

Sir Segwarides Rides After Sir Tristram

Sir Tristram Departs from Tintagel Castle

The Tournament

Tristram and His Mother in the Woods

Innes Fripp (1867 - 1963)

The Death of Guenevere

Lancelot and Guenevere

The Lovers appear before King Arthur

The Penance of Queen Guenevere

The Queen and her Maidens watch for Sir Lancelot

The Rescue of Guenevere

Sir Lancelot in his Madness

The Unknown Champion is Discovered

Harry Furniss (1854 - 1925)

It's a first attempt, but I don't think it's very bad.

Jessica Galbreth

The Lady of the Lake

Morgana Le Fey

Nimue

Edmund H. Garrett (1853 - 1929)

The Arming of Sir Launfal

The Boy Arthur and the Lady of the Lake

Elaine and Launcelot's Shield

Galahad Rides out of Camelot

Gareth Pitches Hesperus Over the Bridge

Guinevere Sees Arthur by the Castle Wall

Guinevere Takes Refuge in a Convent

Launcelot Beholds the Towers of Castle Carbonek

Lynette and Arthur

The Nun and Galahad

Sir Bedivere Throws Excalibur into the Mere

Sir Launfal Opens His Hall

Sir Launfal Scorns a Beggar

Sir Launfal's Return

Three Angels Bear the Holy Grail

The Tournament in the Meadow by Camelot

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Henry Kimball Hadley (1871 - 1937)

Henry Hadley's song from Mumford's Merlin and Vivian

Florence Harrison (1877 - 1955)

And by Him Palomydes, Helmet off, He Fought

And One of These Strange Choosing Cloths Was Blue, Wavy and Long, and One Cut Short and Red; No Man Could Tell the Better of the Two

The Grail Maiden

Guenevere! Guenevere! Do You Not Know Me, Are You Gone Mad?

Guinevere (Title)

He Gave Them Charge About The Queen

Headpiece to King Arthur's Tomb

Headpiece to The Defence of Guinevere

How I Row'd Across and Took It

In That Garden Fair Came Launcelot Walking; This Is True, the Kiss Wherewith We Kissed in Meeting that Spring Day, I Scarce Dare Talk of the Remember'd Bliss

It was their last hour

Knight

Lancelot and the Fairy Circle

Morte D'Arthur - tailpiece

Nevertheless You, O Sir Gauwaine, Lie

The Passing of Arthur [black and white illustration]

The Passing of Arthur [color illustration]

Queen Guinevere Had Fled the Court

Rise up, and look and listen, Galahad

She made her face a darkness from the King.

Six Maidens Round the Mast, a Red-Gold Crown on Every One, a Green Gown on the Last

Mac Harshberger (1900 - 1975)

The Beggar Carries Iseult

Brewing the Love Potion

The Death of Tristan

The Dwarf Pouring Flour

For seven days and seven nights the sea so drew him; at times, to charm his grief, he harped.

Guenelon's Head

He watched them as they lay

Iseult's Ring

Ogrin the Hermit

The Queen drank deep of that draught and gave it to Tristan.

Then tell me what is the manner of the sail?

Tristan Harping

Tristan Returns to King Mark

Tristan Slays the Beast

William Harvey (1796 - 1866)

Vortigern and Rowena

Albert Herter (1871 - 1950)

Arthur's Vision of the Wheel of Fortune

Merlin, Changed into the Appearance of a Fair Young Squire

Margaret Campbell Hoopes

Alas, the farmer's wife said: No!

And both his parents said to Tom, The King's so good to us

The boy was born and cradled in a cup

The clover broke

The cow began to chew!

Frontispiece

He dug his way into the dough

He had a mouse to ride upon

He hid behind a dish of cream

He'd hide inside their baskets

I'd gladly give the sum to have a baby

King Arthur's fisher caught the fish

Merlin, a passing wizard

Merlin: I packed him off.

A passing beggar snatched it up

She sneezed him in the ocean!

She tied him with a piece of thread / Tight to a blade of grass

So, damp and sticky, Tom trudged home

Stay just as long as you are good

Then Merlin said: I'll charm the boy

They built a golden throne for him

They made his coat of apple-skins; a roseleaf was his cap

This dough's bewitched!

Tom climbed the kitchen table-leg

Tom ran; the spider panted close

Tom, get out - you'll have to go back home!

Tom's parents took him to their farm

When suddenly a mighty fish with one gulp swallowed him.

Would strew her way with carpet-tacks

William Holman Hunt (1827 - 1910)

The Lady of Shalott

Alfred Kappes (1850 - 1894)

The Combat of Mordred and King Arthur

How Arthur Gat His Sword Excalibur

How Balin Smote the Dolorous Stroke

How Bedivere Bare King Arthur to the Waterside

How Eliot the Harper Sang the Lay That Dinadan Had Made

How Sir Tristram Soused Sir Dagonet in the Well

How Sir Turquine Bare Sir Ector Clean Out of His Saddle

The Knight of the Black Lawns

Queen Guenever's Peril

Sir Galahad Brought to the Siege Perilous

Sir Launcelot at the Castle of the Holy Grail

The Tournament at Camelot

William Kent (1685 - 1745)

The Section of Merlin's Cave in the Royal Gardens at Richmond

Jessie M. King (1875 - 1949)

And a Damsel Kept Watch over a Dead Knight

A Clerk Brought a Golden Vessel to the Fountain

A Damsel Mounteth the Steps

A Damsel of Passing Great Beauty Held his Head in her Lap

The Damsels of the Car

Dindrane Prayeth Succour

Four Clad in White Garments

The Graal Appeareth to Messire Gawain at the Feast

Guenevere Gone A Maying.

He Espied at the Door a Squire

The High History of the Holy Graal

How Four Queens Found Sir Lancelot in the Wood

The Joy of Perceval's Sister

The Knight of the Burning Dragon

A Knight Riding a Great Pace toward the Forest

The Knights Come Through the Forest with Such a Rushing

Launcelot Went his Way

Launcelot's Vigil by the Queen

The Lord of the Castle Findeth his Daughter Weeping

Meliot Findeth the Weeping Damsel

Messire Gawain Departeth from the Castle

Perceval Departeth from the Hermitage and Carrieth the Banner

Perceval Goeth Toward the Deep Forest

Perceval Seeth the Questing Beast

Perceval Winneth the Golden Cup

She Filched Away the Sword

M. L. Kirk (1860 - 1938)

And Down the Long Beam Stole the Holy Grail

And in the Flame Was Borne a Naked Babe

And the Dead, Oared by the Dumb, Went Upward with the Flood

A City of Shadowy Palaces

Damsel, Let Me First See this Cloak upon You, That I May the Better Observe It

For Two Hours More They Fought

Here by God's Rood is the One Maid for Me

I Shall Never Make Thee Smile Again

Lo, Thou Likewise Shalt Be King

The Princess Drew Back Blushing

Thou Art Not Knight but Knave

Yea, Little Maid, for Am I Not Forgiven?

Alan Lupack (1946 - )

Tintagel

Tristan Stone

Thomas Mackenzie (1887 - 1944)

At Last She Came to the Little Hermitage

At Last Sir Gareth Overcame the Red Knight

A Castle Was in Sight, Built Close by the Sea

The Chapel Perilous

The Lady of the Lake

Lancelot Lay Sleeping Under the Apple Tree

They Hailed Him as the King of England

Tristram Carried His Love Away

Daniel Maclise (1806 - 1870)

Arthur Receives Excalibur

Morte D'Arthur

W. H. Margetson (1861 - 1940)

(Frontispiece) There, before all the people, Arthur pulled the sword out of the stone

Arthur

Arthur seized the sword by the handle and pulled it lightly out of the anvil

Balan, full of fear, crawled on his hands and knees to his brother

Balin jumped over the wall of the castle

Balin rushed from room to room looking for a weapon

Balin started to his feet, and drew his sword

By her side was lying a white brachet

By the side of a well, King Pellinore saw a lady sitting, holding a wounded knight

The Castle of Carboneck

Dame Brisen gave Sir Launcelot a cup of wine

The damsel brought Sir Launcelot out of the castle

The dwarf hit Sir Tor's horse such a blow between the eyes that the poor horse staggered back its own length

Excalibur

Gareth at once seized the horn; but Linet tried to shop him

Gareth used to think about all his brother's brave deeds

Guinever

The hand and arm passed before Sir Ector and Sir Gawaine

He hung his head and rode slowly away

The Holy Grail, covered with white silk, came into the hall

The Holy Grail

The horse brought Sir Percivale to the shores of a great rough sea

I shall try to kill you, ere you go, said the knight

I will serve none of you, for ye be all false spell-workers.

In the morning one of these ladies came to Gawaine

Joseph of Arimathea, with his own blood, marked the cross

King Arthur caught sight of a little ship

King Arthur sprang at King Pellinore, and gripped him round the waist

King Arthur still defended himself

King Arthur took the sword and the scabbard

The knight weeping for his master

Lady Liones

Lady Nimue

The lady with the sword

Lady, I will be a true and loyal husband

Let be, thou foul knave! she said. Slay him not. If thou do, thou shalt repent it.

Linet

Look! said the Lady Nimue, ye ought to be sore ashamed to be the death of such a knight!

Merlin

Merlin, to make sure of King Arthur's safety, gave him at once into the care of Sir Ector

A monk brought them to where the shield hung

Morgan le Fay

Now you have released me from the spell completely

O, Merlin, tell me that spell! said the Lady Nimue

The old man led Sir Galahad to the Siege Perilous

On his hands and knees, the sick knight crept to the Holy Grail

Queen Guinever

Queen Guinever went to Almesbury, and there she made herself a nun

Queen Morgan le Fay took the scabbard

The Ruined Chapel

She was known to have studied magic while she was being brought up in the nunnery

Sir Bevidere found the archbishop lying, praying, upon a new-made grave

Sir Bevidere put King Arthur gently into the barge

Sir Bors found a ship waiting for him

Sir Bors met a man in monk's clothing, riding upon an ass

Sir Galahad and the nuns

Sir Galahad held King Evelake in his arms, and at his touch he was healed

Sir Gawaine and Sir Ector went on foot until they came to where Nacien, the hermit, lived

Sir Launcelot could find no way in, for though the door was old and worn, it held fast

Sir Launcelot lay asleep under the apple tree

Sir Launcelot saw the Holy Grail, but dimly

Sir Lionel had brooded so long over his brother's unkindness

Sir Pelleas bound as a prisoner

Sir Pelleas, looking in, saw Sir Gawaine stoop and kiss the Lady Ettard

Sir Percivale and the recluse

Sir Priest! said Lionel, if ye leave him not, I shall slay thee, too!

So with a good heart, and now fully armed, Galahad rode farther on upon his quest

The Sword in the floating stone

Then Sir Percivale's sister hung the sheathed sword upon the girdle, and girded it about Galahad's waist

Uther Pendragon

When Sir Launcelot du Lake came to her father's court, Elaine knew him at once

Where is my lady, the queen? said Sir Launcelot

Katherine Marsh

Lady of the Lake

Frank T. Merrill

None durst approach nigh for fear of being torn to pieces

Sir Gawain seized his lance and bade them farewell

Henry Ospovat (1877 - 1909)

And that long, wild kiss-- their last

Under the glittering hollies Iseult stands

Cow Eating Thistle

Sparrows Drop Tom Thumb

Title Page [to 1912 Tom Thumb]

Tom Thumb Knighted

Eric Pape (1870 - 1938)

And grasped of both wild hands, swung trenchant

In her ecstasy a lovely devil

It shall go hard with him through thee, unconquerable blade

She raised her oblong lute and smote some chords

Sir J. Bernard Partridge

Cover Page

Miss Ellen Terry Act I.

Miss Ellen Terry. Act II.

Miss Ellen Terry. Act III.

Mr. Henry Irving The Prologue

Mr. Henry Irving. Act I

Mr. Henry Irving. Act III.

Evelyn Paul (1883 - 1963)

It Is Indeed The Cup

The Quest of the Saint Graal

Willy Pogány (1882 - 1955)

Above His Shoulder a Great Spear Rose High

Alighted Ferris, Sword in Hand to Kill

All Grew Giant-Hearted with their Lord

At Length He Mounted, and Crossed O'er the Lowered Drawbridge - Small

At Length He mounted, and Crosser O'er the Lowered Drawbridge

Background Illustration

Behold the Sacred Spear

Behold the Swan-Lord and His Daughter Fair

Beneath the Oaks of Montsalvat

Bewildered Stood Parsifal

The Calling of Parsifal

The Coming of the Grail

Contents Page

A Crystal Chalice . . . That Seemed to Pulse Forth Light

The Cup and Spear - Small

The Cup and Spear

Deathless, and parch'd With Thirst

Each Knight Rode Mighty with the Strength of Ten

The Flag that Thou Must Follow

Grey Twilight for that Aged Pair

Groaning, At His Side He Clutched

He . . . Traced Upon Her Brow the Sign of Christ

He Saw an Aged Man Beside the Brink

The High Mysterious Call

Into the Shadowy Wood He Took His Way

Introduction

Introduction and Part I Background Illustration

Kundry

Kundry, the Lady of the Forest

Leaning On His Lance Stood Parsifal

No Medicine May Heal Amfortas' Wound

No Medicine May Heal Amfortas' Wound - Small

Parsifal

Parsifal and Amfortas

Parsifal Heals Amfortas

Parsifal in the Forest

Parsifal Praying

Parsifal Swung It in His Joyous Mood

Parsifal the Fool

Parsifal-Half-Title

Parsifal-Title Page

Part VI: Background Illustration

Part VI: The Deliverer

She, Amaz'd, Recoiled a Step

Silent and Pale Was Kundry

Slow and Without a Word They Turned Them Home

So Fared He On

A Span Deep in His Side I Drove It - Small

A Span Deep in His Side I Drove It

The Spear

Still Mute . . . Stood Young Parsifal

Stranger Things Their Eyes Were Still to See

They Clung Together, By One Impulse Sweet United

They Turned the Tide of Some Disastrous Fight

This was Kundry . . . Angry, Asham'd

Thus Were His Lips By Courtly Devoir Seal'd

Thy Mother Secretly Fled From Her Lordly Castle

Time With Alll the Stor'd Up Weight of All Her Centuries Smote Her

Titurel and the Grail

Titurel Bore It Homeward Reverently

Titurel, the Valiant Pious Knight

Upon Her Scarlet Lips He Kiss'd Her

Vainly Had He Yearn'd To Be Enroll'd Among That Band

A Woman's Face . . . With Grey Locks and Eyes of Fire

A Wondrous Palace, Never Built with Hands

The Wounding of Amfortas

Mme. E. Prioleau

How Four Queens Found Sir Lancelot in the Wood

Howard Pyle (1853 - 1911)

The Barge of the Dead

The Battle with the Sable Knight

Belle Isoult and Sir Tristram Drink the Love Draught

The Bishop of Rochester and the King

A Damsel Bringeth Aid unto Sir Ewaine

The Damsel Elose Giveth a Ring to Sir Ewaine

The Damsel Elouise the Fair Rescues Sir Launcelot

The Damsel Lynette

The Demoiselle Blanchefleur

Denneys and the Hermit Help Sir Launcelot to his Armor

The Enchanter Merlin

The Enchantress Vivien

Enid and Geraint in the Garden

Enid and Geraint Ride Past the Town Bridge

Enid Talks with the Earl

Excalibur the Sword

The Forest Madman Saveth Ye Life of King Arthur

Four Knights serve the Gardener Lad

The Gardener Lad takes off his Cap

The Grail is Manifested, and Sir Lanceleot Sleepeth

How Arthur Drew Forth ye Sword

How Sir Launcelot Held Discourse with ye Merry Minstrels

How Sir Launcelot Rode Errant in a Cart

In the Valley of Delight

King Arthur findeth ye old woman in ye hut

King Arthur meets the Lady Guinevere

King Arthur of Britain

King Mark Broods Mischief

King Mark of Cornwall

The King's Physicians Attend Sir Geraint

The Lady Belle Isoult

The Lady Elaine the Fair Knoweth Sir Launcelot

The Lady Elaine the Fair

The Lady Guinevere

The Lady Layonnesse Cometh to the Pavilion of Sir Gareth

The Lady Layonnesse

The Lady Nymue Beareth Away Launcelot into the Lake

The Lady of Shalott - Mirror Breaking

The Lady of Shalott Arrives in Camelot

The Lady of Shalott Floating Toward Camelot

The Lady of Shalott Weaving

The Lady of the Fountain

The Lady of the Lake and Sir Galahad

The Lady of the Lake finds Sir Pellias wounded

The Lady of the Lake Sits by the Fountain in Arroy

The Lady of the Lake

The Lady Yvette the Fair

Lancelot

Lancelot

Launcelot Examines The Lady of Shalott

The Madman of the Forest who was Sir Launcelot

Merlin Prophesieth from a Cloud of Mist

Parcenet Covers Sir Pellias with a Cloak

The Passing of Arthur

The Passing of Guinevere

The Passing of Sir Gawaine

Queen Morgana Appears unto Sir Launcelot

Queen Morgana le Fay

Queen Morgana Loses Excalibur His Sheath

The Queen of Ireland Seeks to Slay Sir Tristram

The Queen's Pages Clothe Sir Launcelot

Sir Bors de Ganis, the Good

SIr Bors Rides with the White Knight

Sir Ewaine Poureth Water on the Slab

Sir Galahad Cometh with the Hermit of the Forest

Sir Galahad Meets Sir Melyas

Sir Galahad of the Grail

Sir Galahad Rides with the Lady

Sir Gareth doeth Battle with the Knight of the River Ford

Sir Gareth of Orkney

Sir Gawaine Challenges Sir Launcelot

Sir Gawaine Finds the Beautiful Lady

Sir Gawaine Knoweth the Shield of Sir Launcelot

Sir Gawaine Sups with the Lady Ettard

Sir Gawaine the Son of Lot, King of Orkney

Sir Gawaine, Knight of the Fountain

Sir Geraint and the Knight of the Sparrow Hawk

Sir Geraint Lies Asleep

Sir Geraint, Son of Erbin

Sir Kay and the Forest Madman

Sir Kay Breaketh His Sword at the Tournament

Sir Kay Interrupts the Meditations of Sir Percival

Sir Kay Showeth the Mystic Sword unto Sir Ector

Sir Lamorack and Sir Percival Receive Their Mother's Blessing

Sir Lamorack Herds the Swine of Sir Nabon

Sir Lamorack of Gales

Sir Launcelot and Elouise the Fair

Sir Launcelot and Sir Lavaine Overlook the Field of Astolat

Sir Launcelot Climbs to Catch the Lady's Falcon

Sir Launcelot Confideth his Shield to Elaine the Fair

Sir Launcelot Defends the Door

Sir Launcelot doeth Battle with Sir Turquine

Sir Launcelot Greets Queen Guinevere

Sir Launcelot Leapeth from the Window

Sir Launcelot of the Lake

Sir Launcelot Sits with Sir Hilaire and Croisette

Sir Launcelot Slayeth the Worm of Corbin

Sir Launcelot Takes the Armor of Sir Kay

Sir Lavaine the Son of Pelles

Sir Lionel of Britain

Sir Mador Begs for his Life

Sir Mador de la Porte

Sir Mellegrans Interrupts the Sport of the Queen

Sir Mordred the Traitor

Sir Pellias Encounters the Sorrowful Lady in Arroy

Sir Pellias, the Gentle Knight

Sir Percival and Sir Ector Look upon the Isle of Joy

Sir Percival and Sir Lamorack Ride Together

Sir Percival of Gales

Sir Percival Overcometh the Enchantress Vivien

Sir Percival Rideth the Black Horse

Sir Tristram Assaults King Mark

Sir Tristram Cometh to ye Castle of Sir Nabon

Sir Tristram Harpeth Before King Mark

Sir Tristram Leaps into the Sea

Sir Tristram of Lyonesse

Sir Tristram Sits with Sir Launcelot

They Came to See The Lady of Shalott

Tristram Succors the Lady Moeya

Two Knights Do Battle before Cameliard

Uther-Pendragon

Vivien Bewitches Merlin

The White Champion meets two Knights at the Mill

Arthur Rackham (1867 - 1939)

And there openly Sir Mador appealed the Queen of the death of his cousin Sir Patrise

Battle Scene

Breunor flung his sword high above his head.

Castle

Dagonet, King Arthur's Fool

Final Image

Galahad drew out the sword easily.

How Arthur drew his sword Excalibur for the first time

How at a great feast that King Mark made came Eliot the harper and sang the lay that Dinadan had made.

How at the Castle of Corbin a maiden bare in the Sangreal and foretold the achievements of Galahad.

How Beaumains defeated the Red Knight, and always the damosel spake many foul words unto him.

How Dame Lionesse came forth arrayed like a princess.

How Galahad drew out the sword from the floating stone at Camelot.

How King Arthur and Queen Guenever went to see the barge that bore the corpse of Elaine the Fair Maiden of Astolat.

How Mordred was slain by Arthur, and how by him Arthur was hurt to the death.

How Queen Guenever rode a-maying into the woods and fields beside Westminster.

How Queen Morgan le Fay stole away the scabbard from Arthur

How Sir Launcelot fought with a fiendly dragon.

How Sir Launcelot slew the knight Sir Peris de Forest Savage that did distress ladies, damosels, and gentlewomen.

How Sir Launcelot was shot by a gentlewoman hunting

How Tristram and Isoud drank the love drink.

How Tristram was known by the little brachet in the garden of King Mark's castle.

King Arthur had hardly spoken, before a white hart ran into the hall.

Knightly Combat

Merlin and Nimue: How by her subtle working she made Merlin to go under the stone to let wit of the marvels there: and she wrought so there for him that he came never out for all the craft he could do.

Mounted Combat

Questing Beast

The Questing Beast

The Ship of the Sangreal

Sir Beaumains espied upon great trees how there hung full goodly armed knights by the neck

Sir Galahad

Sir Launcelot

Sir Mordred went and laid a mighty siege about the Tower of London and shot great guns

So the child was delivered unto Merlin

They saw on the other side a lady with a sperhawk on her hand

This knight he served as he had done the other.

Tristram smiting him clean off his horse.

When she saw she must be overtaken, she shaped herself, horse and man, by enchantment unto a great marble stone

The young knight . . . at once opened the gates.

George Wooliscroft Rhead (1854 - 1920)

Arthur and Enid

Arthur at Mount Badon

Arthur Finds the Crown of Diamonds

Arthur Forgives Guinevere

Arthur Leading the Charge at Mount Badon

Arthur Leaves the Nunnery

Earl Limours' Feast

Elaine with Lancelot's Shield

Elaine Worships Lancelot

Elaine's Barge Arrives at Camelot

Elaine's Funeral

Enid and Geraint Reconciled

Enid Awakened by Her Mother

Enid Helps Geraint to Arm

Enid's Misunderstood Words

Geraint Faces Three Assailants

Geraint Insulted by a Dwarf

Geraint Jousting

Geraint Wounded

Geraint's Love for Enid

Guinevere after Arthur's Departure

Guinevere and the Novice

Guinevere as a Nun

Guinevere Flees to Almesbury

Guinevere Forgives the Novice

Guinevere Grovels Before Arthur

Guinevere Scorns Lancelot's Gift

Guinevere Watches for Geraint and Enid

Guinevere with Enid and Vivien

Guinevere's Jealousy

Guinevere's Last Glimpse of Arthur

The Lady of the Lake Steals Lancelot

Lancelot and Guinevere

Lancelot and Guinevere's Parting Kiss

Lancelot as Arthur's Ambassador to Guinevere

Lancelot Nursed by Elaine

Lightning Frightens Vivien

Merlin

Merlin and Vivien

Sea Battle for a Beautiful Woman

The Tournament at Camelot

Vivien

Vivien Smiles Saucily

Vivien's Accusations of Those at Camelot

Vivien's Spell

Vivien's Triumph

The Wizard Who Formerly Owned Merlin's Book of Magic

A Young Man Sings of Fame

Louis Rhead (1857 - 1926)

Arthur and Enid

Arthur at Mount Badon

Arthur Finds the Crown of Diamonds

Arthur Forgives Guinevere

Arthur Leading the Charge at Mount Badon

Arthur Leaves the Nunnery

Earl Limours' Feast

Elaine with Lancelot's Shield

Elaine Worships Lancelot

Elaine's Barge Arrives at Camelot

Elaine's Funeral

Enid and Geraint Reconciled

Enid Awakened by Her Mother

Enid Helps Geraint to Arm

Enid's Misunderstood Words

Geraint Faces Three Assailants

Geraint Insulted by a Dwarf

Geraint Jousting

Geraint Wounded

Geraint's Love for Enid

Guinevere after Arthur's Departure

Guinevere and the Novice

Guinevere as a Nun

Guinevere Flees to Almesbury

Guinevere Forgives the Novice

Guinevere Grovels Before Arthur

Guinevere Scorns Lancelot's Gift

Guinevere Watches for Geraint and Enid

Guinevere with Enid and Vivien

Guinevere's Jealousy

Guinevere's Last Glimpse of Arthur

The Lady of the Lake Steals Lancelot

Lancelot and Guinevere

Lancelot and Guinevere's Parting Kiss

Lancelot as Arthur's Ambassador to Guinevere

Lancelot Nursed by Elaine

Lightning Frightens Vivien

Merlin

Merlin and Vivien

Sea Battle for a Beautiful Woman

The Tournament at Camelot

Vivien

Vivien Smiles Saucily

Vivien's Accusations of Those at Camelot

Vivien's Spell

Vivien's Triumph

The Wily Vivien

The Wizard Who Formerly Owned Merlin's Book of Magic

A Young Man Sings of Fame

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828 - 1882)

Galahad

King Arthur in Avalon

The Lady of Shalott

Florence M. Rutland

The Lady of Shalott

Alberto Sangorski (1862 - 1932)

All day long the noise of the battle roll'd

And looking wistfully with wide blue eyes [Text Page]

And loosed the shatter'd casque [Text Page]

Arthur in the Barge

Arthur Receives Excalibur from the Lady of the Lake

But now much honour and much fame were lost. [Text Page]

He heard the deep behind him[Text Page]

Here ends Morte D'Arthur [Colophon]

The holy Elders with the gift of myrrh [Text Page]

In those old days, one summer noon [Text Page]

The Lady of the Lake

May he within himself make pure![Text Page]

Not like that Arthur who, with lance in rest [Text Page]

Not tho' I live three lives of mortal men [Text Page]

Or voice, or else a motion of the mere [Text Page]

Seen where the moving isles of winter shock[Text Page]

Should thus be lost for ever from the earth [Text Page]

Sir Bedivere

So saying, from the ruin'd shrine he stept [Text Page]

That bow'd the will. [Text Page]

Then spake King Arthur to Sir Bedivere [Text Page]

This way and that dividing the swift mind [Text Page]

The Three Queens in the Barge

Title Page with images of Tennyson and the Dying Arthur

Bernard Sleigh (1872 - 1954)

Tristram and Iseult

James Smetham (1821 - February 5, 1889)

Sir Bedivere Flinging Excalibur

John Moyr Smith (1839 - 1912)

Elaine

Enid

Etarre

Excalibur

Gareth

Geraint

Guinevere

Isolt

Lynette

Morte D'Arthur

Pelleas

Vivien

Lancelot Speed (1860 - 1931)

And running to her chamber, she sought in her casket for the piece of iron . . . . and fitted it in Tristram's sword

At last the strange knight smote him to the earth, and gave him such a bugget on the helm as well-night killed him

Beyond the chapel, he met a fair damsel, who said, Sir Lancelot, leave that sword behind thee, or thou diest.

But still the knights cried mightily without the door, Traitor, come forth!

By the time they had finished drinking they loved each other so well that their love never more might leave them

Came forth twelve fair damsels, and saluted King Arthur by his name

The castle rocked and rove throughout, and the walls fell crashed and breaking to the earth

Galahad . . . . quickly lifted up the stone, and forthwith came out a foul smoke

The giant sat at supper, gnawing on a limb of a man, and baking his huge frame by the fire

The lady of the lake

Lady, replied Sir Beaumains, a knight is little worth who may not bear with a damsel

The Marriage of King Arthur

Prianius was christened, and made a duke and knight of the Round Table

Sir Lancelot smote down with one spear five knights, and brake the backs of four, and cast down the King of Northgales

So he rode into the hall and alighted

Then fell Sir Ector down upon his knees upon the ground before young Arthur, and Sir Key also with him

Then they began the battle, and tilted at their hardest against each other

Then was Sir Lancelot sent for, and the letter read aloud by a clerk

This girdle, lords, said she, is made for the most part of mine own hair, which, while I was yet in the world, I loved most well

Waving her hands and muttering the charm, and presently enclosed him fast within the tree

Franz Stassen (1869 - 1949)

The Communion of the Holy Grail

Monsalvat, the Castle of the Grail

Parsifal Healing King Amfortas

Parsifal Healing King Amfortas - Small

Parsifal in Quest of the Holy Grail

Parsifal Revealing the Holy Grail

Helen Stratton (1867 - 1961)

The Knight of the Ill-Shapen Coat Chooses His Bride

G.H. Thomas (1824 - 1868)

The Death of Arthur

King Arthur and the Giant of St. Michael's Mount

King Arthur Slays Flollo, the Roman Governor

The Marriage of King Arthur and Queen Guinevere

Merlin and Vivien

The Miracle of the Sword

F. H. Townsend (1868 - 1920)

And strikes up I'd be a butterfly

The cataracts thunder down the steep

The cupbearers reeled off with their lord

Elphin was impressed into royal favour

A face, as round and as red as the setting sun in November, shone forth in the aperture

He heard, or seemed to hear, words, Beware of the oppression of Gwenhidwy

The hoarse voice of Teithrin ap Tathral sounded in their ears from without, Foxes! you have been seen through, and you are fairly trapped

I am the man

I swore I would not budge from the water unless my two barrels went with me

I will take a simple and single draught of what happens to be here

In the coracle lay a sleeping child, clothed in splendid apparel

Initiated him in these mysteries

Obey the king: first drink, then speak.

One of the Three Chaste Kisses of the island of Britain