La Belle Dame Sans Merci I Ah, what can ail thee, wretched wight, Alone and palely loitering?
John Keats
Poetry
After ail, when faced with such an unpleasant truth, what parent would not want to be convinced?
King, Stephen
Apt Pupil
If anything ail a man, so that he does not perform his functions, if he have a pain in his bowels even—for that is the seat of sympathy—he forthwith sets about reforming—the world.
Henry David Thoreau
Walden