" With the help of an "old beldame," the male protagonist manages to get inside the closet of his lover's room, where he observes her praying.
In the second stanza, the holy man walks past "The sculptured dead ... Knights, ladies, praying in dumb orat'ness." With the help of an "old beldame," the male protagonist manages to get inside the closet of his lover's room, where he observes her praying. That protagonist, Porphyro, seduces Madeline after she dreams of him, completing the ritual. Noting "Ah, bitter chill it was!" FTP name this John Keats poem dealing with a ritual in which a virgin goes to bed without supper on the night of the titular feast.
In the second stanza, the holy man walks past "The sculptured dead ...
"The {Eve of St. Agnes}"