Ask me no more, for fear I should reply
Title
Ask me no more, for fear I should reply
Description
Ask me no more, for fear I should reply;
Others have held their tongues, and so can I,
Hundreds have died, and told no tale befoer:
Ask me no more, for fear I should reply --
How one was true and one was clean of stain
And one was braver than the heavens are high,
And one was fond of me: and all are slain.
Ask me no more, for fear I should reply.
Others have held their tongues, and so can I,
Hundreds have died, and told no tale befoer:
Ask me no more, for fear I should reply --
How one was true and one was clean of stain
And one was braver than the heavens are high,
And one was fond of me: and all are slain.
Ask me no more, for fear I should reply.
Creator
A. E. Houseman
Publisher
Henry Holt and Company
Date
Written: 1885
Published : 1939 (posthumously)
Published : 1939 (posthumously)
Citation
A. E. Houseman , “Ask me no more, for fear I should reply,” Victorian Queer Archive, accessed May 15, 2024, https://victorianqueerarchive.omeka.net/items/show/27.