11) Songs from "The Princess." VI. Ask Me No More by Alfred Tennyson, 1st
Baron. Edmund Clarence Stedman, ed. 1895. A Victorian Anthology, 1837-1895
...ASK me no more: the moon may draw the sea; The cloud may stoop from heaven and take the shape With fold to fold, of mountain or of cape; But O too fond, when have...
12) 639. You Ask Me, Why. Alfred, Lord Tennyson. 1909-14. English Poetry III:
From Tennyson to Whitman. The Harvard Classics
...YOU ask me, why, tho ill at ease, Within this region I subsist, Whose spirits falter in the mist, And languish for the purple seas. It is the land that freemen till,...
13) § 21. ask. 7. Pronunciation Challenges. The American Heritage Book of
English Usage. 1996
...especially in the southern or middle sections of the country. The pronunciation ( st) for asked, on the other hand, is extremely common all over and can be considered...
14) 30. They Ask Each Other Where They Came From. V. Mist Forms. Sandburg,
Carl. 1920. Smoke and Steel
...Are you the green valley my silver channels roam? The two of us a bowl of blue sky day time and a bowl of red stars night time? Who picked you out of the first great...
15) Dam'ask Linen. Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 1898
...So called from Damascus, where it was originally manufactured. 1...
16) 34. Of thee (kind boy) I ask no red and white. Sir John Suckling.
Metaphysical Lyrics & Poems of the 17th c.
...OF thee (kind boy) I ask no red and white to make up my delight, no odd becomming graces, Black eyes, or little know-not-whats, in faces; Make me but mad enough,...
17) 289. Song. Thomas Carew. The Oxford Book of English Verse
...ASK me no more where Jove bestows, When June is past, the fading rose; For in your beauty's orient deep These flowers, as in their causes, sleep. Ask me no more whither...
18) 254. Primrose. Robert Herrick. The Oxford Book of English Verse
...ASK me why I send you here This sweet Infanta of the year? Ask me why I send to you This primrose, thus bepearl'd with dew? I will whisper to your ears:— 5 The sweets...
19) 125. If tolling bell I ask the cause. Part Four: Time and Eternity.
Dickinson, Emily. 1924. Complete Poems
...IF tolling bell I ask the cause. A soul has gone to God, I m answered in a lonesome tone; Is heaven then so sad? That bells should joyful ring to tell 5 A soul had...
20) Chapter XIII. James, Henry. 1917. The Portrait of a Lady. Vol. XI. Harvard
Classics Shelf of Fiction
...IT was this feeling, and not the wish to ask advice—she had no desire whatever for that—that led her to speak to her uncle of what Lord Warburton had said to her....
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